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.

The 101 Freeway reopened at around 8 p.m. as thousands were still protesting in downtown Los Angeles attempting several times to get back on the freeway, but Los Angeles police officers managed to ...

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Few shows have had quite as bumpy a ride as SWAT, which has managed to come back ... who run the Special Weapons and Tactics unit of the LAPD, and is still set in the same universe as co-creator ...

The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call of a man allegedly making threats with a knife in the 16200 block of Devonshire Street around noon on Wednesday, January 29. Upon arrival ...

(Google Maps) The creepy zoomed-in satellite images also revealed the words “LAPD,” “federal,” and “TRAFICO,” which means traffic in Spanish. The last one especially caught the ...

Its unprecedented media coverage turned it into one of the most-watched car chases in history. One of the key figures in the negotiations was Peter Weireter, the LAPD SWAT team leader. He took command ...

On Monday, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the concerning messages being left around one Los Angeles shipping container yard could be attributed to a single individual who the ...

The Supreme Court issued an order late Monday that granted fast-track review in a case about whether a Georgia family can sue the federal government over their home being mistakenly raided by an FBI ...

The property belongs to Union Pacific Railroad, the Los Angeles Police Department told The Independent. Authorities, however, swiftly put an end to the rumors of any immediate danger, saying the ...