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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sunset Heights, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 22 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

22

drone flights crossed Sunset Heights.

22

of them in August 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunset Heights 22 times between 1 August 2026 and 30 August 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 August 2026.

22 of the 22 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.
Sunset HeightsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

6 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 22 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service50%
  2. Patrol support41%
  3. Search5%
  4. Training and testing5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 20265:46 pmSearch17 minc164a873
Sat 1 Aug 20268:16 pmCall for service13 min7434d533
Sun 2 Aug 20269:45 pmCall for service17 minae03952e
Tue 4 Aug 20263:06 pmPatrol support16 min7bbc69e4
Wed 5 Aug 20264:23 pmPatrol support13 min6d4820c5
Thu 6 Aug 20266:52 pmPatrol support13 min7a9399c7
Fri 7 Aug 20267:22 pmPatrol support13 minfcdbfecc
Sun 9 Aug 20266:47 pmPatrol support14 minf3d5b2dd
Fri 14 Aug 20269:23 pmPatrol support17 minac5c7e3c
Fri 14 Aug 20269:53 pmCall for service18 min15209a53
Sat 15 Aug 20267:58 pmCall for service13 mina40453fc
Sat 15 Aug 202610:29 pmCall for service15 min1ed8c548
Tue 18 Aug 20263:09 pmPatrol support14 min59c9b805
Wed 19 Aug 20268:19 pmTraining and testing11 minf30c14ed
Thu 20 Aug 20266:05 pmCall for service14 min585f7d1a
Fri 21 Aug 20268:35 pmCall for service18 min99604db4
Sat 22 Aug 20264:05 pmPatrol support19 min1dd65e15
Wed 26 Aug 20267:40 pmPatrol support14 mincf0ee19d
Thu 27 Aug 202612:45 amCall for service21 min11a7da0d
Fri 28 Aug 20264:38 pmCall for service15 min52527bae
Fri 28 Aug 20268:32 pmCall for service19 min3b866cfb
Sun 30 Aug 20265:53 pmCall for service10 minf08e6782

All 22 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. "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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