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Arlington Heights

A neighborhood page. 125 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area.

125

drone flights crossed Arlington Heights.

12

of them in October 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Arlington Heights 125 times between 17 August 2025 and 22 October 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 22 October 2026.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Arlington HeightsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

30 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

17% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Arlington Heights, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 1
  2. 0
  3. 0
  4. 2
  5. 0
  6. 8
  7. 13
  8. 5
  9. 10
  10. 12
  11. 17
  12. 9
  13. 18
  14. 18
  15. 12
Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 125 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service65%
  2. Patrol support31%
  3. Training and testing2%
  4. Not stated1%
  5. Events1%
  6. Search1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 20263:57 pmCall for service18 mind81def5e
Fri 2 Oct 20267:36 pmCall for service16 min0c9de633
Fri 2 Oct 202610:37 pmCall for service19 minabaef69c
Fri 2 Oct 202610:38 pmCall for service20 mind98ae0f3
Sat 3 Oct 20267:43 pmCall for service14 mindcaff018
Sat 3 Oct 20269:37 pmCall for service13 min35945765
Mon 5 Oct 20266:57 pmCall for service12 min49b91dc6
Sat 10 Oct 20263:05 pmCall for service13 min25828cfb
Sat 10 Oct 20266:42 pmCall for service16 min335dfecf
Sat 17 Oct 20267:12 pmPatrol support16 mincc495614
Tue 20 Oct 202612:33 pmCall for service12 min5532cdfa
Thu 22 Oct 20263:53 pmPatrol support10 min519b238a

All 12 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Arlington Heights" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Milwaukee (Neighborhoods, data.milwaukee.gov), licence recorded as "Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)", in the place layer file for Milwaukee.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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