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Old North Milwaukee

A neighborhood page. 304 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area.

304

drone flights crossed Old North Milwaukee.

22

of them in October 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Old North Milwaukee 304 times between 18 July 2025 and 22 October 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 22 October 2026.

22 of the 22 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
Old North MilwaukeeOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

13% 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.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Old North Milwaukee, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 2
  2. 2
  3. 0
  4. 1
  5. 1
  6. 2
  7. 13
  8. 33
  9. 28
  10. 37
  11. 56
  12. 31
  13. 26
  14. 23
  15. 27
  16. 22
Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 304 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service69%
  2. Patrol support28%
  3. Search2%
  4. Not stated1%
  5. Events1%
  6. Training and testing1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20268:09 pmCall for service17 min90cdfaa4
Fri 2 Oct 202610:12 pmCall for service19 min50493a15
Sat 3 Oct 20265:45 pmPatrol support19 min0892be3c
Sun 4 Oct 202610:16 pmPatrol support22 min4240875b
Tue 6 Oct 20269:26 amPatrol support21 minbb59af9f
Tue 6 Oct 20269:54 amPatrol support15 min5d66acbd
Fri 9 Oct 20269:20 pmCall for service13 mina102c334
Fri 9 Oct 202611:23 pmPatrol support12 minedc18ebb
Sat 10 Oct 20263:55 pmCall for service17 minfe1d6765
Sat 10 Oct 20266:25 pmPatrol support8 minfd349464
Sun 11 Oct 20266:28 pmPatrol support12 minfec8fdde
Mon 12 Oct 20264:46 pmCall for service15 minb7ac54bd
Mon 12 Oct 20264:55 pmCall for service12 min92e918e9
Mon 12 Oct 20266:47 pmCall for service14 minbcc23511
Mon 12 Oct 20269:03 pmCall for service14 min73786206
Tue 13 Oct 202610:43 pmCall for service21 min1d582fa4
Wed 14 Oct 20261:05 pmPatrol support6 min96fbc778
Thu 15 Oct 20261:25 pmCall for service17 minae286dc5
Fri 16 Oct 202610:24 pmPatrol support17 min3fc32224
Mon 19 Oct 20263:41 pmPatrol support17 min3dcdd028
Tue 20 Oct 202610:05 pmCall for service12 min0404eea3
Thu 22 Oct 20263:16 pmCall for service17 min222303b2

All 22 flights in October 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. "Old North Milwaukee" 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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