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    Subscribe to the "S.W.A.T." YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/3TZb8Qn Follow "S.W.A.T." on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@swatcbs Follow "S.W.A.T." on Instagram:...

  2. With Shemar Moore, David Lim, Jay Harrington, Patrick St. Esprit. Follows a locally born and bred S.W.A.T. sergeant and his team of highly-trained men and women as they solve crimes in Los Angeles.

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    • 2017-11-02
    • Action, Adventure, Crime
    • 43
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    A police officer is on patrol when he gets a call about a domestic dispute. When he arrives at the scene, he finds that an armed man has taken his girlfriend hostage and barricaded himself inside his apartment. The officer calls for backup, but when the other officers arrive, they realize that their standard guns won't shoot through the barricades....

    Luckily, most police forces have a special unit with the equipment and training needed to resolve exactly this kind of situation: the SWAT team. A SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team is an elite unit within a police force, used for exceptional situations that require increased firepower or specialized tactics. The officers in a SWAT unit have u...

    The Los Angeles Police Department is generally credited with developing the concept of SWAT in the 1960s. Political and social turmoil in the United States during that decade led police to decide that they were unequipped to deal with certain violent situations. The Watts Riots in 1965 and the 1966 sniper attack at the University of Texas in Austin...

    Initially, the SWAT unit was viewed with great skepticism by police officials, politicians and even other officers. The original acronym, \\"Special Weapons Attack Team,\\" was viewed as too antagonistic, so Gates changed it to \\"Special Weapons and Tactics.\\" Two incidents cemented the SWAT team's place within the modern police force: a barricade st...

    • Ed Grabianowski
  3. The SWAT team's search for an abducted teen leads them to a member of the Witness Protection Program and a decades-old political extremist group.

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