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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wick Field, August 2025

A neighborhood page. 12 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2025.

12

drone flights crossed Wick Field.

12

of them in August 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Wick Field 12 times between 4 August 2025 and 21 August 2025, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 21 August 2025.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 2025. 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.
Wick FieldOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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 12 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing75%
  2. Call for service17%
  3. Patrol support8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 4 Aug 20251:47 pmTraining and testing25 minbccf2b41
Sun 10 Aug 20257:25 pmTraining and testing21 minca6c1e8d
Wed 13 Aug 20256:13 pmTraining and testing6 min44a49d95
Wed 13 Aug 20256:23 pmTraining and testing3 min7c16ef32
Thu 14 Aug 20257:20 pmPatrol support14 min94adbcf0
Sun 17 Aug 20253:53 pmTraining and testing26 min2cd9bc98
Mon 18 Aug 20252:33 pmTraining and testing4 min53ea2311
Tue 19 Aug 20259:37 pmTraining and testing3 min6a14501d
Thu 21 Aug 20252:44 pmTraining and testing12 min40d8b517
Thu 21 Aug 20252:58 pmTraining and testing9 min4a545ceb
Thu 21 Aug 20253:27 pmCall for service24 mine9a81004
Thu 21 Aug 20253:52 pmCall for service23 min1d61cd3b

All 12 flights in August 2025. 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. "Wick Field" 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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