For most of his tenure he refused to hire black officers to police their own communities ... made up of racial minorities.” The SWAT Panther raid in Los Angeles was just such an expedition.

The Los Angeles Police Department’s SWAT unit rarely resorts to using force ... search warrants after the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was fatally shot in her Kentucky home in ...

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 (CBSLA) — Melina Abdullah, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter ... at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis. At least 20 LAPD officers, many in SWAT tactical gear, surrounded ...

LOS ANGELES ... at that time was about 95% black," Ron McCarthy said. "[They] offered up all kinds of information to our detectives." That information led police to 54th and Compton and to ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A group of women are excelling to the highest ranks within the Los Angeles Police Department ... only woman to be on the LAPD SWAT team. "Most of my male ...