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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Midtown, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 23 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

23

drone flights crossed Midtown.

23

of them in September 2026.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Midtown 23 times between 2 September 2026 and 27 September 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 September 2026.

23 of the 23 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

6 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 23 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service74%
  2. Patrol support22%
  3. Not stated4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 20263:35 pmCall for service17 minbfb2204a
Fri 4 Sep 202611:28 amPatrol support16 min18c143ed
Sat 5 Sep 20268:22 pmCall for service21 min9511d5f3
Mon 7 Sep 20269:55 pmCall for service13 mine6391173
Wed 9 Sep 20264:58 pmCall for service19 minc6529b49
Thu 10 Sep 20261:24 pmPatrol support8 mine33a1426
Sat 12 Sep 202610:10 pmNot stated17 min4e447d97
Sun 13 Sep 20264:21 pmPatrol support16 min41cc833c
Mon 14 Sep 20265:23 pmCall for service19 minf7e1fe16
Mon 14 Sep 20268:39 pmCall for service14 min951ec3c4
Tue 15 Sep 20264:13 pmPatrol support13 mindb538946
Tue 15 Sep 20268:39 pmCall for service15 mind635f62f
Thu 17 Sep 20265:28 pmPatrol support20 minca4a2637
Thu 17 Sep 20269:08 pmCall for service20 min7edd5392
Fri 18 Sep 20269:50 pmCall for service13 min8a226d37
Sat 19 Sep 20266:52 pmCall for service14 min6f53784f
Tue 22 Sep 20269:07 pmCall for service19 mind19b82dc
Thu 24 Sep 20269:35 pmCall for service17 mina688d2d5
Thu 24 Sep 202610:26 pmCall for service12 min8c0163cd
Fri 25 Sep 20263:25 pmCall for service20 min044e6924
Fri 25 Sep 20264:20 pmCall for service21 min78329ddc
Sun 27 Sep 20266:00 pmCall for service18 minc702a513
Sun 27 Sep 20269:37 pmCall for service15 min0e7c878d

All 23 flights in September 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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