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 incident that put Los Angeles police Capt. Silvia Sanchez on a collision course with the union that represents more than 8,000 rank-and-file cops began with a 911 call about a fight on the ...

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 ...

One of the key figures in the negotiations was Peter Weireter, the LAPD SWAT team leader. He took command of the situation and successfully ensured a peaceful resolution. In Netflix’s ‘American ...

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 ...

Two officers from the Los Angeles Police Department were injured during a pursuit crash in South Los Angeles on Tuesday. The LAPD said it received a call around 12:10 a.m. of an officer-involved ...

The LAPD Central Division responded to a video on X that showed a woman near the area stating that a man writes the messages all the time and has been doing so for years, noting that the ...

Portland police tactical teams responded to reports of a standoff at a home in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood Tuesday morning. Officers executed a search warrant shortly after 8 a.m. in the ...