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After Graduation!

The origins of the SWAT team can be found in 1960s Los Angeles, when the police department recognized a growing need for an elite, highly-trained response team which could handle emerging situations. The first SWAT team was established there in 1967, and the concept quickly spread across the nation to other police departments. Today, most major American police departments have a SWAT team, as do other law enforcement agencies, and forces which do not have a SWAT team typically have a cooperative agreement with a law enforcement agency that does.

SWAT members make between 60,000 and 82,000 dollars a year.