SWAT teams are an essential part of law enforcement and rescue missions, and have been ever since the first LAPD SWAT team was established in 1967 as a solution to increased occurrences of riots ...

A Los Angeles police pursuit ended in dramatic fashion Friday afternoon with SWAT team members using armored vehicles to box in the suspect’s truck then shattering the windows and tossing in gas ...

A Los Angeles police pursuit ended in dramatic fashion Friday afternoon with SWAT team members using armored vehicles to box in the suspect's truck then shattering the windows and tossing in gas ...

With the man holed up inside Carlos’ shop, the Marshals and the LAPD initiated a standoff. The LAPD SWAT team fired more than 30 rounds of tear gas into the business, blasting holes through ...

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