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. Police Chief Michel ...

A Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team was deployed in a Jefferson Park neighborhood Saturday for an apparent standoff with a suspect. The operation was reported at 5:18 p.m. Saturday in the area ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

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. Trump ...