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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sunset Heights, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 16 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

16

drone flights crossed Sunset Heights.

16

of them in January 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunset Heights 16 times between 7 January 2026 and 30 January 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 January 2026.

16 of the 16 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.
Sunset HeightsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

4 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 16 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Patrol support56%
  2. Call for service31%
  3. Training and testing12%

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 20267:18 pmTraining and testing10 min843cc5f2
Thu 8 Jan 20264:20 pmCall for service19 mina0175d11
Sat 10 Jan 20264:22 pmPatrol support21 min4b3cbbe1
Sat 10 Jan 20268:29 pmCall for service21 minb3ab3179
Sat 10 Jan 20269:08 pmPatrol support18 mina8e20ece
Sat 10 Jan 20269:30 pmPatrol support15 mine1b40432
Mon 12 Jan 20268:05 pmCall for service19 minced6cbc1
Wed 14 Jan 20261:40 pmTraining and testing12 min29198846
Thu 15 Jan 20265:58 pmPatrol support18 mine61f6bd5
Thu 15 Jan 20266:33 pmCall for service16 min53a9306d
Fri 16 Jan 20264:11 pmPatrol support16 minf08d35b9
Tue 20 Jan 20269:55 pmCall for service12 min6335edf3
Thu 22 Jan 20266:14 pmPatrol support9 minc97ee61c
Thu 29 Jan 20265:33 pmPatrol support17 min165e8a32
Thu 29 Jan 20267:21 pmPatrol support16 min3b1b40b5
Fri 30 Jan 20265:06 pmPatrol support13 min0f830a31

All 16 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. "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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