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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Silver Spring, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 11 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

11

drone flights crossed Silver Spring.

11

of them in August 2026.

1 min 23 s

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Silver Spring 11 times between 2 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

11 of the 11 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.
Silver SpringOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

0 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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing91%
  2. Patrol support9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 2 Aug 20262:00 pmTraining and testing46 s75c3daa4
Sun 16 Aug 20268:10 amTraining and testing56 s81c2a441
Mon 17 Aug 20266:46 amTraining and testing1 min 01 s902bd055
Tue 18 Aug 20266:42 amTraining and testing50 s09d461d2
Mon 24 Aug 20268:19 amTraining and testing3 min67ac98d6
Tue 25 Aug 20268:02 amTraining and testing3 min44839c4f
Wed 26 Aug 20268:40 amTraining and testing4 min6dc833ea
Sat 29 Aug 202612:55 amPatrol support11 min2a545274
Sat 29 Aug 20268:08 amTraining and testing1 min 23 s8997a403
Sun 30 Aug 20268:08 amTraining and testing1 min 13 s11f153cf
Mon 31 Aug 20269:13 amTraining and testing1 min 53 s636ddd5b

All 11 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. "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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