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The Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT unit has chosen a new sidearm. The elite unit has selected the Kimber Custom II .45 ACP as it's duty pistol of choice, Shooting Times reports.
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The officers of LAPD SWAT wanted a handgun that was solid, reliable, and delivered the features, accessories, and performance they felt they needed. After an extensive period of testing there was one clear winner: the Kimber Custom II.
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The reality of the contemporary police special ops team is very different than the image of LAPD SWAT that was burned into America's collective consciousness by the hit show.
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Police Chief Bernard Parks vowed to take his fight to the Los Angeles City Council after a civilian panel decided not to grant him a second five-year term.
Read More →The Police Commission rejected LAPD Chief Bernard Parks' bid for a second five-year term as his department struggles with understaffing, low morale, and implementing a decade-old reform mandate.
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Imagine yourself working uniformed patrol at 9:15 a.m. on a warm sunny day and you suddenly find yourself in Beirut, Bosnia, or back in the Mekong Delta. You go from thinking about where you'll stop for the next cup of coffee, to having your black-and-white shot up with full automatic AK-47 rounds.
Read More →Dealing with the unexpected and unusual are two reasons I became a police officer. If I had wanted a dull job, I would have become an accountant. Yet there are just some things even a 13-year veteran of the LAPD is not ready for.
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