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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Midtown, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 15 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

15

drone flights crossed Midtown.

15

of them in February 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Midtown 15 times between 6 February 2026 and 23 February 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 23 February 2026.

15 of the 15 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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

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

13% 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 15 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service73%
  2. Patrol support27%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 6 Feb 20262:17 pmCall for service16 min7d2742c7
Tue 10 Feb 20263:56 pmPatrol support19 mineb443d51
Tue 10 Feb 20269:00 pmCall for service20 min777a9b3c
Tue 10 Feb 20269:49 pmCall for service17 min3f86acdf
Wed 11 Feb 202610:16 pmCall for service21 minf42363ef
Thu 12 Feb 20269:46 pmPatrol support20 min6902f624
Thu 12 Feb 202610:08 pmPatrol support12 min6dd08b49
Sat 14 Feb 20265:19 pmCall for service15 min5d202fce
Sun 15 Feb 202610:31 amCall for service16 minba72c7ee
Tue 17 Feb 20267:14 pmCall for service19 min3088c20c
Wed 18 Feb 20266:34 pmCall for service13 min91bfd09a
Wed 18 Feb 20267:19 pmCall for service12 minb079a4cd
Sat 21 Feb 20263:18 pmPatrol support10 min8dc6ecf2
Sat 21 Feb 20269:43 pmCall for service14 minc6682eed
Mon 23 Feb 20268:43 pmCall for service7 mince3b19d6

All 15 flights in February 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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