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Sweeping SWAT changes recommended
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Calling the LAPD's elite SWAT unit "insular and self-
justifying," an independent panel convened by Police Chief William
Bratton released a summary of its report Tuesday recommending
sweeping changes in how the department runs the unit, selects
candidates, trains officers and remains accountable.
Many of the dozen recommendations made by the nine-member panel
already have been implemented over the last two years - including
the most controversial element, which calls for opening SWAT ...
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SWAT REPORT URGES BROAD CHANGES LAPD: PANEL SAYS UNIT 'INSULAR' -- NEEDS MORE DIVERSITY, ACCOUNTABILITY.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; Byline: Rachel Uranga Staff Writer Calling the LAPD's elite SWAT unit insular and self-justifying, an independent panel convened by Chief William Bratton released a summary Tuesday of its report recommending sweeping changes in how the department runs the unit, selects candidates, trains officers
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SWAT REPORT URGES BROAD CHANGES LAPD: PANEL SAYS UNIT 'INSULAR' -- NEEDS MORE DIVERSITY, ACCOUNTABILITY.
Los Angeles Daily News
; Calling the LAPD's elite SWAT unit "insular and self- justifying," an independent panel convened by Chief William Bratton released a summary Tuesday of its report recommending sweeping changes in how the department runs the unit, selects candidates, trains officers and remains accountable. Many of
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Swat officers end hostage situation in Brighton Heights
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; Pittsburgh police SWAT officers ended a brief hostage situation at a house in the 3400 block of Fleming Avenue about 6:15 p.m. Sunday. The unidentified mother of a 9-month-old girl went to the Zone 1 police station about 4 p.m. and told police that Jeffery Mitchell, 22, had threatened to kill her,
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Man may have taken steroids Co-workers: Doctor wounded in standoff was treating illness
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; A man shot during a gunbattle with Jefferson County SWAT officers Tuesday is an anesthesiologist who had been taking heavy doses of steroids to treat a bout of pneumonia, co-workers said. Frederick William Dorrough's wife called authorities to the couple's home in the 6000 block of Willow Springs
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