Did you know LAPD SWAT was the nation’s first SWAT team? Stood up in the late 1960’s, the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team paved the road ahead for the rest of the nation’s SWAT teams.

The LAPD was among the first police departments ... worldwide that former Chief Daryl Gates famously boasted in 1980 that his SWAT team could rescue American hostages being held in Iran.