How do the Nypd esu and Lapd swat compare?

Brian Hughes, worked at New York City Police Department Answered Sep 16, 2017 · Author has 61 answers and 24.4k answer views The NYPD ESU are trained in many skills in addition to conducting tactical duties (High Risk warrant execution, barricaded perps, hostage rescue, armed perp searches, etc.). read more

NYPD ESU is a regular manned component of the police department, as opposed to the SWAT collateral duty function in most law enforcement agencies. When one is assigned to ESU, that is their full-time duty station until they move on. read more

I just wondered what different officers thought about having a dedicated SWAT unit that only deals with high risk warrants, hostage rescue, counter terrorism, etc, versus having an ESU that deals with the same situations and also with jumpers, car crashes, collapsing buildings, etc. read more