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.

Los Angeles Police and SWAT members arrested a female driver after a more than two-hour standoff in Studio City. A Los Angeles police pursuit ended in dramatic fashion Friday afternoon with SWAT ...

A Fox Hills woman who says she was woken up, held at gunpoint and handcuffed by a SWAT team is suing Los Angeles and the city’s Police Department, claiming officers targeted her house by mistake.