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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Silver Spring, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 21 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

21

drone flights crossed Silver Spring.

21

of them in May 2026.

1 min 36 s

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Silver Spring 21 times between 1 May 2026 and 29 May 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 May 2026.

21 of the 21 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.
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 (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 21 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing76%
  2. Call for service19%
  3. Patrol support5%

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 20268:02 amTraining and testing58 s4dc0714a
Tue 5 May 20268:00 amTraining and testing1 min 00 s4830a8cd
Tue 5 May 202612:46 pmCall for service15 min96dfaffb
Wed 6 May 20268:08 amTraining and testing55 sa4aa1db1
Sat 9 May 20268:05 amTraining and testing1 min 53 sa7701795
Sat 9 May 202612:34 pmCall for service14 min8badf3e2
Sat 9 May 20264:24 pmPatrol support17 min28835dbf
Sun 10 May 20267:58 amCall for service1 min 23 s5f894ee4
Mon 11 May 20268:16 amTraining and testing1 min 31 s64492647
Tue 12 May 20268:09 amTraining and testing1 min 54 sa9c93e83
Wed 13 May 20268:16 amTraining and testing1 min 18 sa659c006
Wed 13 May 202610:20 amTraining and testing2 minc4f1c6ce
Thu 14 May 20268:26 amTraining and testing3 min61df3396
Mon 18 May 20268:11 amTraining and testing1 min 06 sfc30ae42
Wed 20 May 20268:37 amTraining and testing4 min35b14f31
Mon 25 May 20267:01 amTraining and testing1 min 02 s72e41b30
Mon 25 May 20262:18 pmCall for service13 min1667f8d4
Tue 26 May 20268:11 amTraining and testing1 min 21 sd8580252
Wed 27 May 20268:06 amTraining and testing1 min 36 sa36188ae
Thu 28 May 20267:07 amTraining and testing1 min 05 s9bed5b77
Fri 29 May 20268:36 amTraining and testing1 min 43 se7642b00

All 21 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. "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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