Did you know LAPD SWAT was the nation’s first SWAT team? Stood up in the late 1960’s, the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team paved the road ahead for the rest of the nation’s SWAT teams.

As members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s SWAT team prepared to confront an armed suspect who had holed up in a downtown apartment building earlier this month, one of the highly trained ...

Pallbearers made up of current and former LAPD SWAT members carried the coffin of ... Update at 9:00 a.m. Some 400 LAPD METRO officers will pin to their chests a card with Simmons’ photo and ...

Police body camera footage released Monday by the Los Angeles Police Department shows an hours-long standoff earlier this month in which a SWAT officer was shot near the face and a suspected ...

An internal report by the LAPD looked at all the SWAT team incidents over the past decade to determine whether "any potential problems or patterns exist in how the unit uses force." In this 2019 ...

CERRITOS, Calif. (KABC) -- SWAT officers with the Los Angeles Police Department arrested 16 narcotics suspects, including a Skid Row drug kingpin, while serving 20 search warrants in Cerritos ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating allegations that SWAT officers bought specially-made handguns and resold them at a significant profit. It is the department ...

UPDATE, 6:22 PM: Updated with further reports from LAPD after no suspect was found. LAPD SWAT teams were called to Woodland Hills after shots were fired during a caravan rally in support of ...

As members of the Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT team prepared to confront an armed suspect who had holed up in a downtown apartment building earlier this month, one of the highly trained ...