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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Midtown, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 27 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

27

drone flights crossed Midtown.

27

of them in May 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Midtown 27 times between 1 May 2026 and 30 May 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 May 2026.

27 of the 27 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

7 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.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 27 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service67%
  2. Patrol support33%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20268:47 amPatrol support15 min6464e519
Fri 1 May 20265:39 pmCall for service18 min6c2b9ecf
Sat 2 May 20265:33 pmCall for service16 minc686253e
Mon 4 May 20264:54 pmCall for service9 min706efd7b
Mon 4 May 20267:51 pmPatrol support12 minebc8a303
Tue 5 May 20269:17 pmCall for service16 min7bd64fff
Wed 6 May 20269:12 pmPatrol support12 min5565feb7
Thu 7 May 20267:07 pmPatrol support12 min3e6ba20b
Thu 7 May 20269:30 pmCall for service18 minf493611b
Sat 9 May 20269:57 pmCall for service17 minf5932336
Sun 10 May 20266:10 pmCall for service13 min10b9de7e
Mon 11 May 20266:26 pmCall for service15 min0cec1332
Mon 11 May 20267:37 pmCall for service17 minb6fd5fca
Mon 11 May 20268:20 pmCall for service19 min41e1d618
Tue 12 May 20268:21 amPatrol support12 mincbdfabff
Sat 16 May 202611:53 pmCall for service19 min0b697a41
Sun 17 May 202612:47 amPatrol support20 mincd897e13
Sun 17 May 20266:22 pmPatrol support16 minf406fbf1
Mon 18 May 20268:30 amCall for service11 min7a9a5385
Mon 18 May 20269:38 pmPatrol support11 minaf765069
Thu 21 May 20261:15 amCall for service19 minfd57ea87
Thu 21 May 20265:33 pmCall for service17 minb92bfa6e
Thu 21 May 20265:55 pmCall for service7 min59afc707
Mon 25 May 20268:15 pmCall for service13 minc8f42f75
Tue 26 May 20267:59 pmPatrol support13 minc4b30821
Fri 29 May 202610:18 pmCall for service18 mina591e05a
Sat 30 May 20269:22 pmCall for service14 min56b66b5f

All 27 flights in May 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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