This Is the Actual Logo of the Fresno SWAT Team

FYI: This is the logo of the Fresno County SWAT/Crisis Negotiations team. 

Fresno County Sheriff's Office

For lots of stories about why glamorizing SWAT might not be a great idea, check out Reason's SWAT coverage archive. Or just go straight to this new infographic about the SWATification of America.

BONUS: First commenter to identify the Asian character wins a no-knock raid!

UPDATE: Best guess so far: 

Via John Q. Public (@FCDAWatch).

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

It means sweep the leg.

[hamilton]

Oh, a masterstroke, sir.

[Rhywun]

Oh, I thought she was talking about the Ninja dude. My first thought was "it looks like a white guy".

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

BONUS: First commenter to identify the Asian character wins a no-knock raid!

Does it have something to do with selling a blender?

[Dances-with-Trolls]

If do right, no can resist.

[Almanian!]

Too old for the training.

/wrong movie

[Dances-with-Trolls]

OMG KULTERAL APPROPRASHUN!!!

[dannye]

Reminds me of Covert Operatives from pre-youtube days:

http://youtu.be/3UpJH_1y7ls

[Steve G]

Lacist

[Warty]

Is it Ninja Gaiden?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Is it a mall ninja?

[Mongo]

My bitch has a tramp stamp like that.

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

So it means "Leave splooge here"?

[Mongo]

"This end up"

[Fist of Etiquette]

I think that's a pitbull on a diving board.

[Jason Keisling]

It looks more like a pelican than a pitbull.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You'd never survive in law enforcement.

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

Neither would his pelican.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

An Armenian dinosaur hunter? Now I've seen everything!

[Episiarch]

It's amazing how many groups of people in our society who are supposedly professionals and supposed to be SERIOUS TOP MEN are fucking retarded children. I mean it's stunning, and it seems to be heavily concentrated in government because there's no accountability. There are morons in the private sector too but there are at least some checks.

[Mainer2]

From the whitehouset right down to the local school board, the inescapable conclusion is that these are not serious people. We are ruled by the worst sort of junior high school student council busybodies.

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

Wouldn't Zatoichi be more appropriate for a Fresno SWAT team?

[Brandon]

Was the zatoichi fat, too? I thought he was just blind?

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

One version of Zatoichi is "hefty".

[Gweskoyen]

The Kanji is probably ?, pronounced ki, meaning strange, unconventional.

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

So, ahh... queer?

That would be delicious.

[Gweskoyen]

Well, it also appears in ?? kimyou and ??? kushiki, which both can be translated as queer.

[John Thacker]

I assume that they wanted something that meant "special," (for "Special Weapons and Tactics") but it's really the wrong connotation. Though it does appear in the word for "surprise attack": ?? (kishuu).

[John Thacker]

Or maybe they just thought that the two radicals looked like an A and a T?

[Robert]

Toya! Toya! Toya!

[Almanian!]

I always think of the unheralded "In Living Color" episode about "Ninja Security - Silent, but Deadly"

[JEP]

My sister and I were sitting in a bakery in the middle of soccer mom territory. A mom walks in with two kids in karate outfits and they start being loud and obnoxious.

My sister turns to me and says "You know, I bet those characters on their karate outfits mean "Little Shit" or something."

[bassjoe]

Looks like a logo out of Mortal Kombat...

[Raston Bot]

jackanapes
?jak??n?ps/

1. an impertinent person.
2. a tame monkey.

[Bill Dalasio]

All this can do is make me ask "Why?". Seriously. What the hell was the meeting where they decided that this was how they wanted to represent themselves? Who was the guy who sat down and said "We consider a bad high-school drawing of a Japanese assassin as a suitable representation of our unit's and our department's status as law enforcement professionals."?

[Brandon]

Why the hell does a SWAT team need a logo?

[Citizen Nothing]

How else you gonna get the kids to buy the merchandise?

[Mainer2]

To go on their "tactical" uniforms, and "tactical" MRAP, of course.

[Almanian!]

"tactiCOOL", Mainer2, "tactiCOOL"

[Mainer2]

yeah i remember when I used to play army...then I turned 14 and got seriously interested in girls

[Almanian!]

They got no time for the girls. Well, except Morgan Fairchild (JEALOUS).

Cause - weight training, surfing, and then hit the range for my once-a-year target practice.

Oh yeah. hth

[Mainer2]

need more acronyms ATFPPI

smooches

[Robert]

So you can more easily recognize them coming. Obviously they're not really interested in stealth at all. They just want to get the chicks.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It looks like a tap dancer with Down syndrome on a dormer.

[Live Free Or Diet]

I thought it was the part ISIS hacked off the reporter first.

[The Last American Hero]

I thought the character stood for "Nut-Punch"

[Bryan C]

FINISH HIM!

[Reverend Draco]

FATALITY.

[cudmaster]

meh. I think it is important for people who's job it is to kick in your door and murder your family to have some humor in their lives.

There probably shouldn't be people that have that job, but that is a separate issue.

For more fun with military unit patches I recommend: http://www.wired.com/2011/01/d.....a-snuggie/
and similar.

Yes I know, swat isn't actually a military unit, but, they don't know that, and it is their knowledge that is relevant.

[Robert]

Jean Shepherd wrote of one that was a bloody fist holding a chain, and that it was hard to tell whose side they were on.

[???]

The kanji ?? (pronounced keyshoo) means surprise attack. No clue who the character is.

[FaceGrater]

The top one may be "?" pronounced "tai" or "dai". It means, "great"," Large" or "big". The bottom on is tough. It could be "?" pronounced "ka". It means "possible" or "approve." Together they do form "?" which is "ki" of "qi" which means "odd". Interestingly enough "? ?" means "surprise attack" and "? ? " means "lucky encounter". I'm thinking they are trying to do the "surprise attack one...