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Sunset Heights

A neighborhood page. 235 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area.

235

drone flights crossed Sunset Heights.

8

of them in October 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunset Heights 235 times between 25 August 2025 and 24 October 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 October 2026.

8 of the 8 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.
Sunset HeightsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

10% 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 Sunset Heights, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 1
  2. 1
  3. 1
  4. 1
  5. 7
  6. 16
  7. 20
  8. 15
  9. 36
  10. 34
  11. 21
  12. 28
  13. 22
  14. 24
  15. 8
Aug 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 235 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service53%
  2. Patrol support41%
  3. Training and testing5%
  4. Search1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 4 Oct 20269:43 pmCall for service19 min0ae4ee18
Mon 5 Oct 20268:38 pmPatrol support9 min1abb692f
Mon 12 Oct 20268:49 pmCall for service10 minf90e4b46
Fri 16 Oct 20267:16 pmPatrol support15 minc5ccfa51
Sat 17 Oct 20265:13 pmCall for service19 minca59b4d0
Mon 19 Oct 202610:12 pmPatrol support15 min259e48c8
Thu 22 Oct 20265:59 pmPatrol support4 min897613f2
Sat 24 Oct 20267:24 pmCall for service10 minb7d0f5b1

All 8 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. "Sunset Heights" 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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