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Behind the Bastards
The hosts referenced Gates's memoir, noting it recounted how he coined the SWAT acronym and the original meaning he proposed.
quote from Gates's book, Chief. One day, with a big smile on my face, I popped in to tell my deputy chief, Ed Davis, that I'd thought up a new acronym for my special new unit. It's SWAT, I said. Oh, t...
— Episode: Part Two: Daryl Gates: The Man Who Inven...
Episode: Part Two: Daryl Gates: The Man Who Invented SWAT T...
The hosts referenced Gates's memoir, noting it recounted how he coined the SWAT acronym and the original meaning he proposed.
quote from Gates's book, Chief. One day, with a big smile on my face, I popped in to tell my deputy chief, Ed Davis, that I'd thought up a new acronym for my special new unit. It's SWAT, I said. Oh, that's pretty good. What's it stand for? Special weapons attack teams.