LAPD SWAT became the nation’s first modern police SWAT team in the late 1960s. Its creation shaped how law enforcement agencies across the United States built tactical response units.

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A government watchdog has examined Los Angeles Police Department SWAT operations and is making several recommendations for improvement, with the findings to be presented Tuesday to ...

Fellow SWAT member Simmons has become the first LAPD SWAT team member to be killed in the line of duty since it was created in 1967. He leaves behind a wife and two teenage children, and a police ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES Gomez had hoped to turn in his gear, say bye to a few people and quietly slip out the back door, but the LAPD wasn't about to let his retirement go unnoticed after 33 years on the ...

The role of mentoring a young SWAT unit of LAPD piles up new challenges on Hondo, as the second episode of “SWAT Exiles” focuses on how lack of coordination ...