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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Midtown, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 34 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

34

drone flights crossed Midtown.

34

of them in August 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Midtown 34 times between 1 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

34 of the 34 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

9% 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 34 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service74%
  2. Patrol support24%
  3. Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 20263:16 pmPatrol support14 minc7b55572
Sun 2 Aug 20263:49 pmPatrol support17 minc608f0fb
Sun 2 Aug 20269:13 pmCall for service20 minf8745673
Mon 3 Aug 20264:41 pmCall for service15 min1b85de7e
Mon 3 Aug 20265:42 pmCall for service17 min3543d3cf
Mon 3 Aug 20266:08 pmCall for service19 mina6895dc3
Mon 3 Aug 20268:13 pmCall for service20 min2a3d339a
Mon 3 Aug 20269:26 pmCall for service19 mind323179a
Wed 5 Aug 20269:50 amPatrol support10 minc4e6373a
Thu 6 Aug 20265:06 pmPatrol support16 minf7335917
Sat 8 Aug 20264:03 pmCall for service17 mindeaa99bc
Sat 8 Aug 20265:35 pmCall for service10 min1205e493
Sat 8 Aug 20267:27 pmCall for service10 min100117e1
Mon 10 Aug 20262:23 pmCall for service13 min18a336f7
Wed 12 Aug 20268:15 pmCall for service15 min407ed471
Mon 17 Aug 20263:46 pmPatrol support16 min9bb8b6ed
Mon 17 Aug 20264:41 pmPatrol support18 mincac0077b
Tue 18 Aug 202610:21 pmCall for service18 mincc2b9ce7
Thu 20 Aug 20268:52 pmCall for service17 min8b7a2ace
Fri 21 Aug 202610:30 pmPatrol support18 minfebad351
Sat 22 Aug 20269:51 pmCall for service20 minaa5d1459
Sun 23 Aug 20263:37 pmCall for service18 min94ecec18
Mon 24 Aug 20268:22 pmCall for service21 min3e81b416
Mon 24 Aug 202610:39 pmNot stated16 min894eafd1
Fri 28 Aug 20264:22 pmPatrol support14 min03e7ff39
Fri 28 Aug 20264:28 pmCall for service17 min7d2b9c1d
Fri 28 Aug 20266:19 pmCall for service21 minb91d10b3
Fri 28 Aug 20269:16 pmCall for service14 min84e870de
Sat 29 Aug 202610:15 amCall for service13 mind7e3fed0
Sat 29 Aug 202611:19 amCall for service16 minc28e57c9
Sat 29 Aug 20263:33 pmCall for service13 min34e81860
Sat 29 Aug 20269:21 pmCall for service16 min5cde7fc5
Mon 31 Aug 20266:33 pmCall for service16 min3a21c6af
Mon 31 Aug 20268:13 pmCall for service17 mind0680e10

All 34 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, 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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