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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Silver Spring, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 10 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

10

drone flights crossed Silver Spring.

10

of them in January 2026.

4 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Silver Spring 10 times between 7 January 2026 and 29 January 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 January 2026.

10 of the 10 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
Silver SpringOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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 10 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing90%
  2. Patrol support10%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 7 Jan 202611:49 amTraining and testing6 minfc871e31
Thu 8 Jan 202611:10 amTraining and testing5 mind5f10aaa
Thu 8 Jan 202611:22 amTraining and testing5 min3388ea02
Fri 9 Jan 202611:33 amTraining and testing4 min27735cb3
Fri 9 Jan 202611:41 amTraining and testing3 min1f53abf9
Mon 26 Jan 20265:12 pmTraining and testing46 s51a13c9b
Mon 26 Jan 20265:27 pmTraining and testing1 min 37 sbdc3f5e4
Tue 27 Jan 20268:34 amTraining and testing1 min 09 sa4cea162
Wed 28 Jan 20268:45 amTraining and testing4 min9357f7f1
Thu 29 Jan 20266:10 pmPatrol support21 min83a9d1d8

All 10 flights in January 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. "Silver Spring" 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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