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The SWAT series then continued as a real-time strategy game, and then three first-person tactical shooters similar to the Rainbow Six series. All mainline entries in the series featured the LAPD SWAT and endorsements from the LAPD [citation needed] except SWAT 4, which was set in a fictional East Coast city.
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.
In the United States, a SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team is a generic term for a police tactical unit.. SWAT units are generally trained, equipped, and deployed to resolve "high-risk situations", often those regular police units are not trained or equipped to handle, such as shootouts, standoffs, raids, hostage-takings, and terrorism.
Sgt. Timothy Colomey recently gave a deposition in which he further detailed his allegation that a 'SWAT Mafia' controls the LAPD's elite tactical unit. Excessive force, cover-ups: LAPD ...
Later, SWAT raids a Vietnamese-American family linked to Los Locos for producing 3D printed firearms and learns that the source of their weapons is a car dealership used as a front by Los Locos and the Russian mafia. Detectives and an undercover agent move on the dealership but are fired upon; SWAT deploys to defeat the criminals, finding the ...
A lawsuit by former SWAT officer Timothy Colomey accused leaders of the LAPD tactical unit of working to conceal unlawful killings and retaliating against him when he spoke to internal investigators.
Tático Integrado de Grupos de Repressão Especial (TIGRE) – is a SWAT type tactical unit that specializes in hostage rescue operations in the state of Paraná [29] Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais (CORE) – is a paramilitary police unit within the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State [ 30 ]
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.