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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Midtown

A neighborhood page. 226 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area.

226

drone flights crossed Midtown.

31

of them in October 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Midtown 226 times between 26 June 2025 and 24 October 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 October 2026.

31 of the 31 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.
MidtownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

15% 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 Midtown, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 5
  2. 2
  3. 1
  4. 1
  5. 0
  6. 0
  7. 1
  8. 8
  9. 15
  10. 17
  11. 15
  12. 27
  13. 23
  14. 23
  15. 34
  16. 23
  17. 31
Jun 25Jul 25Aug 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 226 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service67%
  2. Patrol support29%
  3. Training and testing1%
  4. Not stated1%
  5. Other0%
  6. Search0%

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 20265:23 pmCall for service19 minf9538d1f
Sat 3 Oct 20268:20 pmCall for service10 min4f267926
Sun 4 Oct 20268:50 pmCall for service17 min396cae24
Mon 5 Oct 20268:01 pmCall for service15 mindf3dce67
Tue 6 Oct 20269:38 pmCall for service17 min271fd5c6
Thu 8 Oct 20268:38 pmCall for service15 min6899bd16
Thu 8 Oct 20268:54 pmPatrol support21 min3223b0d5
Thu 8 Oct 20269:08 pmPatrol support15 min13ead2d2
Sat 10 Oct 20263:05 pmCall for service13 min25828cfb
Sun 11 Oct 20263:58 pmPatrol support20 min73f8195e
Sun 11 Oct 20267:49 pmCall for service18 min9dcd191d
Tue 13 Oct 202612:50 amTraining and testing29 saba892c1
Fri 16 Oct 20266:43 pmCall for service18 min47afc0d0
Fri 16 Oct 20268:08 pmCall for service11 minbfe4b51a
Sat 17 Oct 20265:34 pmCall for service17 minaf9fc691
Sat 17 Oct 20267:54 pmCall for service20 minc1905004
Sat 17 Oct 20268:06 pmCall for service18 min0dd7250e
Sat 17 Oct 20268:20 pmCall for service21 min38d6388c
Sat 17 Oct 20268:37 pmCall for service10 min63ee8289
Sat 17 Oct 20269:15 pmCall for service11 mindd9b7fdf
Sat 17 Oct 20269:23 pmCall for service18 min030e148b
Sun 18 Oct 20268:12 pmPatrol support18 minea7924d6
Mon 19 Oct 20266:35 pmCall for service15 min914266a7
Tue 20 Oct 20265:58 pmCall for service14 min4b4a7103
Tue 20 Oct 20266:18 pmCall for service13 min8031ff6b
Tue 20 Oct 20268:09 pmCall for service14 min24e8e3ff
Wed 21 Oct 20268:03 pmPatrol support17 min7504e3e1
Wed 21 Oct 20268:20 pmPatrol support16 min6f0dad4d
Fri 23 Oct 20267:13 pmCall for service20 min5f82acf6
Sat 24 Oct 20263:51 pmCall for service10 mind3ffdd8b
Sat 24 Oct 20266:32 pmCall for service12 minedc83e7d

All 31 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. "Midtown" 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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