drone flights over Milwaukee that day.

12:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:51 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Milwaukee police drones flew 35 times on Wednesday 30 September 2026, the first at 12:15 am and the last at 10:51 pm CDT, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record.

35 drawable flights of 35. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.

One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing77%
Call for service17%
Patrol support6%

Flights, in order

35 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:15 am	Patrol support	13 min	`1c72b73e`
1:42 am	Call for service	10 min	`fa42edd5`
11:43 am	Training and testing	29 s	`b1d9e6e1`
11:43 am	Training and testing	1 min 00 s	`f0efa5fd`
11:56 am	Training and testing	23 min	`f5105a4c`
11:56 am	Training and testing	24 min	`8dd201a7`
12:29 pm	Training and testing	29 min	`dacc3b6e`
12:30 pm	Training and testing	27 min	`e884ef82`
1:59 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`d2bbf41b`
2:00 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`85351d0a`
2:08 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`17e30fe9`
2:09 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`92601830`
2:18 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`ddeff25d`
2:23 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`34cc7cdd`
2:31 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`c377ce30`
2:31 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`e59bc8a7`
2:40 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`160359a0`
2:42 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`a8dbc6b5`
2:56 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`a262bf8a`
2:57 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`b32c44db`
3:04 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`439d0b50`
3:06 pm	Call for service	15 min	`831e3284`
3:09 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`7cb71ab7`
3:12 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`31473f67`
3:13 pm	Call for service	16 min	`42cca5c5`
3:18 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`c9bf0869`
3:23 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`cf206658`
3:28 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`9ca25083`
3:31 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`7fcb7f12`
5:36 pm	Call for service	16 min	`143a62fe`
7:07 pm	Training and testing	32 s	`1ccdeff3`
7:29 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`bb1dd200`
8:44 pm	Patrol support	15 min	`10a7dd5f`
10:24 pm	Call for service	15 min	`db5df4bf`
10:51 pm	Call for service	23 min	`e9d69f0d`

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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