S.W.A.T. is an acronym standing for “Special Weapons and Tactics.” ...

INDIANAPOLIS — One of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s special weapons and tactics (SWAT) teams conducted an hours-long operation on the near north side of the city Saturday afternoon ...

CHARLOTTE — Charlotte-Mecklenburg police and SWAT swarmed a southwest Charlotte neighborhood Wednesday. Chopper 9 Skyzoom got to the neighborhood off South Tryon Street at about 11:30 a.m. Several ...

Over the past several decades, law enforcement tactical squads have outfitted themselves with bigger and badder vehicles in hopes of avoiding and/or more easily ending standoffs with potentially ...

Learning the right way EDITOR: "People at the Peace and Justice Center were dismayed by young children holding automatic weapons," Eszter Freeman wrote ("The wrong lesson," Letters, Friday). What is ...

A Jefferson Park neighborhood was on lockdown Saturday following a deadly shooting that prompted a SWAT team response. Police responded to a call around 1:30 p.m. of shots being fired in the area of ...

An hourslong SWAT standoff in Ramona that prompted the evacuation of an elementary school on Wednesday ended with the discovery of a man's body, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said.

An armed man who was wanted in a juvenile sex battery case barricaded himself in Hialeah on Thursday before he surrendered to police after SWAT and crisis negotiators responded, police said. The ...