7
drone flights crossed Capitol Heights.
7
of them in August 2026.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Capitol Heights 7 times between 3 August 2026 and 21 August 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 21 August 2026.
2 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
14% 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.
Why, in the agency's words
The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 7 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, August 2026
| Date | Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 3 Aug 2026 | 10:19 pm | Patrol support | 17 min | db101656 |
| Fri 7 Aug 2026 | 7:22 pm | Patrol support | 13 min | fcdbfecc |
| Sun 9 Aug 2026 | 6:47 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | f3d5b2dd |
| Fri 14 Aug 2026 | 9:53 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 15209a53 |
| Sat 15 Aug 2026 | 7:58 pm | Call for service | 13 min | a40453fc |
| Tue 18 Aug 2026 | 6:33 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 49fcebae |
| Fri 21 Aug 2026 | 8:35 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 99604db4 |
All 7 flights in August 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, 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.
- Boundary. "Capitol Heights" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Milwaukee (Neighborhoods, data.milwaukee.gov), licence "Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)".
- A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.
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