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 ...

A longtime Los Angeles police SWAT sergeant is suing the LAPD, alleging the unit is run by a “SWAT Mafia” of veteran cops who encourage the use of deadly force and ostracized him for revealing ...

A former member of a Los Angeles police SWAT unit is alleging in a lawsuit that officers encouraged the use of deadly force and retaliated against him for speaking out against misconduct.

LOS ANGELES, March 29 (UPI) -- A veteran female Los Angeles police officer has been accepted into the SWAT training program, putting her on track to be the first woman in the elite unit.

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 ...

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 ...

The widow of a Los Angeles police SWAT officer killed during a Winnetka operation will do a book signing soon in Woodland Hills. Lisa Simmons’ book, “41D: Man of Valor,” tells the story of ...