The Milwaukee Police Department has been testing drones to respond to incidents like search-and-rescue or find people fleeing officers for the last year. The department plans to create a drone team.

As par of its Drone as First Responder program, Oklahoma City police deployed a drone to find a man "in a very inaccessible spot" after he was struck by a train and suffered life-threatening injuries.

The report responds directly to recent claims by organizations such as the ACLU, which has warned that police drone programs may usher in an era of mass aerial surveillance. A new report jointly ...