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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Midtown, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 8 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

8

drone flights crossed Midtown.

8

of them in January 2026.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Midtown 8 times between 4 January 2026 and 29 January 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 January 2026.

8 of the 8 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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

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

12% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 8 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Patrol support50%
  2. Call for service50%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 4 Jan 20263:18 pmPatrol support21 min8fc8f079
Tue 13 Jan 20267:41 pmPatrol support12 minc79fd685
Thu 15 Jan 20268:34 pmPatrol support19 minc62f69dd
Wed 21 Jan 20263:31 pmPatrol support15 min88af0032
Tue 27 Jan 20267:30 pmCall for service15 min36de4e1a
Wed 28 Jan 20269:00 pmCall for service22 min5a7f322e
Wed 28 Jan 202610:31 pmCall for service22 min5c3d534a
Thu 29 Jan 20268:53 pmCall for service20 min4b4bd4ce

All 8 flights in January 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. "Midtown" 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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