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ANDOVER — Police and a SWAT unit worked for more than two hours to negotiate with a woman barricaded inside her residence Monday afternoon.

A whistleblower's lawsuit alleges the LAPD's vaunted tactical unit was run by a "SWAT Mafia" of influential veteran cops who encouraged the use of deadly force. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) With a ...

Timothy Colomey said his fellow Los Angeles police officers had a nickname for him after he transferred out of SWAT: "Top Rope." It was a reference to a professional wrestler flinging himself from the ...