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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sunset Heights, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 24 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

24

drone flights crossed Sunset Heights.

24

of them in September 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunset Heights 24 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

24 of the 24 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.

8% 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 24 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service58%
  2. Patrol support38%
  3. Search4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20269:04 pmPatrol support17 min66bedebe
Tue 1 Sep 20269:07 pmPatrol support16 min818ae06c
Thu 3 Sep 20269:15 pmPatrol support22 min67735e6f
Thu 3 Sep 20269:27 pmPatrol support17 mina1ba0d64
Thu 3 Sep 20269:41 pmPatrol support22 minb2391364
Mon 7 Sep 20265:35 pmCall for service14 min99e1d550
Sat 12 Sep 20265:34 pmSearch15 minaa59309e
Sat 12 Sep 20266:50 pmCall for service20 min43fe5e36
Sat 12 Sep 20267:05 pmCall for service10 minc850aee6
Sat 12 Sep 202610:52 pmPatrol support11 min35651f1f
Sun 13 Sep 20269:49 pmCall for service9 min30f4cfae
Mon 14 Sep 20265:48 pmCall for service10 mine15e4911
Thu 17 Sep 20264:38 pmCall for service18 min5fe99ab1
Fri 18 Sep 20268:07 pmPatrol support8 min1f969cb4
Sun 20 Sep 20261:12 pmPatrol support7 min2321a985
Wed 23 Sep 20268:33 pmCall for service20 min3528ac59
Wed 23 Sep 20269:31 pmCall for service15 mine60e18b4
Fri 25 Sep 20269:22 pmCall for service21 minf6012482
Sat 26 Sep 20267:04 pmCall for service18 min8cc07e55
Sat 26 Sep 20267:34 pmPatrol support16 mine696a758
Sun 27 Sep 20267:24 pmCall for service14 mind5900b61
Sun 27 Sep 20267:34 pmCall for service14 min929c539c
Tue 29 Sep 20268:58 pmCall for service12 mine17fb37e
Wed 30 Sep 202610:24 pmCall for service15 mindb5df4bf

All 24 flights in September 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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