Cameras / Wisconsin / Milwaukee
License plate readers in Milwaukee, WI
Volunteers have documented 102 automated license plate readers inside Milwaukee. No other Wisconsin city in this index has more, and Milwaukee alone accounts for 4.7% of every reader documented in the state. Its 1.1 readers per square mile spread across 96.2 square miles — thinner coverage than 70% of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 94% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
102
readers documented
1.1
per square mile
1st
of 50 indexed Wisconsin cities
4.7%
of Wisconsin’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety96 · 94%
- Motorola Solutions1 · 1%
- Genetec2 · 2%
- Unknown3 · 3%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 71 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- West Allis (1), Greenfield (1), Flock Safety (1). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (28), traffic signal (1), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 96.2 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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