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The report found that of SWAT's 1,350 deployments between 2012 and 2022, only 105 deployments used any force (fatal and non-fatal), and that during that ten-year period, only 20 SWAT officers were involved in on-duty shootings.
Chief Michel Moore has ordered an internal review of SWAT team operations to determine whether "any potential problems or patterns" exist in how the unit uses force.
Los Angeles police have released a decade's worth of data on SWAT shootings and use-of-force cases in response to a Times report this year about a member of the unit saying "happy hunting" to his ...
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.
The increased use of SWAT teams is a hallmark of increased police militarization. The Cato Institute's Radley Balko wrote that during the 1980s, there were about 3000 SWAT raids a year and as of 2005 there were 40,000 a year. SWAT teams being used for gambling crackdowns and serving a search warrant are routine in some places, like Fairfax, VA ...
To deal with these under conditions of urban violence, the LAPD formed SWAT, notes the report. The report states on page 109, "The purpose of SWAT is to provide protection, support, security, firepower, and rescue to police operations in high personal risk situations where specialized tactics are necessary to minimize casualties." [12]
The department investigated claims that an officer recorded questions from a sergeant's promotional exam using a pair of camera-equipped glasses.
The Special Investigation Section was formed in 1965 as a stakeout unit and the Detective Bureau's equivalent of the Metropolitan Division's then-new SWAT unit, in response to an increase in crimes committed by the same suspects in different locations across the city, which the LAPD was then unable to effectively respond to. [2]