CON: DOES SWAT NEED AN OVERHAUL?(Viewpoint)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: April 27, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Robert C.J. Parry

THE Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT unit may be the best in the country, but that hasn't stopped Chief William Bratton from seeking to overhaul it in a way that could prove destructive.

Whether guided by political pressures or plain old political correctness, Bratton put together a panel ostensibly to study the unit. But according to my sources on the unit -- who remain anonymous for fear of retribution -- the Board of Inquiry did no such thing. Instead, it moved forward blindly with plans to gut LAPD SWAT.

Earlier this month, and after ...

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