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 ...

Timothy Colomey, a former sergeant in the LAPD’s SWAT unit, filed a lawsuit alleging he faced retaliation for reporting misconduct. Colomey has alleged “unlawful killings” by SWAT members ...

A judge Tuesday awarded nearly $1 million in attorneys’ fees to a retired Los Angeles police sergeant who won $3.56 million ...

With a sterling record of busting down doors and arresting armed suspects over her decade in SWAT, Los Angeles police Lt. Jennifer Grasso figured she had a strong case to become the tactical unit ...

An internal report by the LAPD looked at all the SWAT team incidents over the past decade to determine whether "any potential problems or patterns exist in how the unit uses force." In this 2019 ...

A 27-year-old man suspected of breaching a skirmish line during a demonstration in downtown Los Angeles sustained a head ...

Lieutenant Ruben Lopez and the LAPD SWAT team took their new dog for a walk. The dog, Spot, knew its commands — sit, stay, release and even shake. But this was no average canine. Spot is a robot ...

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.