Police body camera footage released Tuesday by the Los Angeles Police Department shows an hours-long standoff earlier this month in which a SWAT officer was shot and a suspected gunman was killed.

A longtime Los Angeles police SWAT sergeant is suing the LAPD, alleging the unit is run by a “SWAT Mafia” of veteran cops who encourage the use of deadly force and ostracized him for revealing ...

A former LAPD sergeant has sued the city of Los Angeles, alleging he faced retaliation after calling out senior members of the department's SWAT unit over a culture of violence, secrecy and cover-ups.

A former member of a Los Angeles police SWAT unit is alleging in a lawsuit that officers encouraged the use of deadly force and retaliated against him for speaking out against misconduct. Sgt. Timo… ...

The first death of an LAPD SWAT Team officer in the line of duty stunned and saddened police officers Thursday from California to Pennsylvania – a sign of just how important the elite, tactic… ...

The video shows officers open fire on the woman as she walked towards a home with a gun and a large machete in her hands.

The Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT unit rarely resorts to using force and does not glorify violence as one former member alleged, a newly released internal report concluded.

LAPD SWAT team officers allegedly used their status to buy specially made handguns and resell them for steep profits, according to a report that will be given to the Los Angeles Police Commission ...

A former LAPD sergeant has sued the city of Los Angeles, alleging he faced retaliation after calling out senior members of the department's SWAT unit over a culture of violence, secrecy and cover-ups.

LAPD and SWAT sniper units surround a house where a man armed with a rifle barricaded himself, in Los Angeles in 2014. A former SWAT member filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging a group of officers ...