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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Uptown, August 2026

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

24

drone flights crossed Uptown.

24

of them in August 2026.

5 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Uptown 24 times between 1 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

24 of the 24 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.
UptownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

4% 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. Training and testing42%
  2. Call for service29%
  3. Patrol support21%
  4. Not stated4%
  5. Events4%

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 20268:16 pmCall for service13 min7434d533
Sat 1 Aug 20269:31 pmCall for service16 min61bb1b4e
Sun 2 Aug 202610:07 amTraining and testing38 s16b309f9
Mon 3 Aug 20268:12 amTraining and testing46 s32135efe
Tue 4 Aug 20268:06 amTraining and testing41 sebdce209
Wed 5 Aug 20268:18 amTraining and testing42 sbf45e85a
Fri 7 Aug 20268:11 amTraining and testing1 min 18 seafca877
Fri 7 Aug 20265:14 pmCall for service18 min71faa3b0
Sat 8 Aug 20264:46 pmPatrol support10 min7b88273e
Sat 8 Aug 20269:26 pmPatrol support10 min673d084a
Tue 11 Aug 20268:21 amPatrol support1 min 45 s0b93463c
Wed 19 Aug 20268:19 amNot stated25 s242745a4
Fri 21 Aug 202610:17 pmCall for service14 min426700e7
Sat 22 Aug 20267:19 pmEvents17 min6c6fe08d
Sun 23 Aug 20266:19 pmPatrol support9 min50217715
Sun 23 Aug 20268:50 pmCall for service14 min85123479
Mon 24 Aug 20268:16 amTraining and testing37 s84f57754
Mon 24 Aug 20269:46 pmCall for service19 min91cd9c1f
Wed 26 Aug 20268:14 amTraining and testing24 s7dbbcc43
Thu 27 Aug 20269:18 pmCall for service15 minc0a4509c
Sat 29 Aug 20268:08 amTraining and testing49 s76994ee3
Sun 30 Aug 20268:08 amTraining and testing33 sde859930
Mon 31 Aug 20268:11 amTraining and testing38 s199f407a
Mon 31 Aug 20261:09 pmPatrol support9 min35f75db5

All 24 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. "Uptown" 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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