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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Uptown, 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 Uptown.

24

of them in September 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Uptown 24 times between 1 September 2026 and 29 September 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 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.
UptownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

6 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. Call for service71%
  2. Patrol support21%
  3. Training and testing8%

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 20266:34 pmPatrol support12 min49796476
Thu 3 Sep 20268:08 amTraining and testing42 s44b5249b
Sun 6 Sep 20266:00 pmCall for service17 min52b58a3f
Fri 11 Sep 20269:41 pmCall for service13 min6004aa1b
Sat 12 Sep 20269:28 pmCall for service9 min0b1032bc
Sun 13 Sep 20267:56 amTraining and testing57 s895864c7
Mon 14 Sep 20268:19 amPatrol support5 min822d86ea
Sun 20 Sep 20263:57 pmCall for service9 min48364e8f
Tue 22 Sep 202610:19 pmPatrol support17 min1261d6aa
Fri 25 Sep 20262:42 pmCall for service17 minb8f27551
Fri 25 Sep 20265:53 pmCall for service16 min3f4f5923
Fri 25 Sep 20266:11 pmPatrol support20 min73409eb2
Sun 27 Sep 202611:21 amCall for service13 min7c298463
Mon 28 Sep 20266:16 pmCall for service26 min46f68197
Mon 28 Sep 20266:35 pmCall for service23 min48f16217
Mon 28 Sep 20266:53 pmCall for service25 mind966a4a8
Mon 28 Sep 20267:10 pmCall for service20 min05c00f40
Mon 28 Sep 20267:24 pmCall for service25 minaf38a171
Mon 28 Sep 20267:38 pmCall for service23 min0162efcc
Mon 28 Sep 20267:52 pmCall for service16 minb9689c1c
Mon 28 Sep 20268:18 pmCall for service25 mineb45b7fc
Mon 28 Sep 20268:31 pmCall for service10 minac0c8825
Tue 29 Sep 20266:00 pmCall for service20 min5dce9747
Tue 29 Sep 20266:42 pmPatrol support13 min4113a6f7

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. "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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