A 3-year-old boy is safe after Gilbert police SWAT officers stormed a home at about 9 p.m. on June 13 to end a tense standoff with an armed man who had fired a gun inside the house while the child

Former and current LAPD officers are expected to testify in a civil trial stemming from a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles that alleges the department’s vaunted tactical unit was run by a “SWAT Mafia” of influential veteran cops who encouraged ...

Over the past several decades, law enforcement tactical squads have outfitted themselves with bigger and badder vehicles in hopes of avoiding and/or more easily ending standoffs with potentially dangerous criminals. But one California SWAT team learned the ...

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. Timothy Colomey filed the suit Tuesday in Los Angeles County ...

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 Moore ordered the report, which examined all of the ...