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.

Wenninger said in a pretrial deposition that LAPD higher-ups showed more leniency in reviewing shootings and other uses of force by SWAT officers. Wenninger's deposition also raised questions ...

A barricade situation involving a man with a firearm inside a second-floor apartment in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of ...