I have seen body cam footage showing mag dumps but don't believe they are that common. But if you say you aren't scared during gun play, you are a liar, I don't care who you are. But most officers will finish a 25 year career and never fire a shot in anger.
Of all the officer involved shootings I have personal knowledge of, 4 or fewer shots were fired. Volume fire may be appropriate under certain circumstances, like when the adam henry is actively shooting at you, but is not the norm. Things happen so fast when the adrenaline hits, most officers involved in an OIS could not tell you how many rounds they fired. There are about 17,000 agencies in the U.S. Training, training and use of force policy, and marksmanship vary greatly between agencies. Training budgets and leadership are controlling factors
I have a couple decades of experience teaching from classes at FLETC to a state LE Academy to private sector stuff like Ramgemaster John Hearne Chuck Haggard and several others.
Here is the problem with LE. Standards on everythjng have been watered down they train on targets with extremely large unrealistic max point scoring zones (also poorly placed for tactical anatomy that while you get max points won’t effect a human like somewhere else would)
They have went to the go fast shoot til the threat goes away which is never good outside a military offensive operation you can’t shoot faster than you can asses and expect to make good hits in the right places. Is there a time sure but it’s a very narrow window and an outlier
While the term mag dump keeps getting thrown around and several do the issue while several do dunp mags it’s the rapid split times, shootings under 7 rounds usually end the fight by effective hits (as seen in several BWC) shootings over 8 and up to 15 rounds are cyclic split times suspect gives up or flees vs incapacitated by a effective hits. That is because the go fast BS and everyone goes him, why one cop carries 147 rounds (whatever but you get my point) mindset
Then factor in the majority of LEO’s don’t train on anything but those huge B27 type targets and only on the flat range no tactical anatomy like how to hit the aorta or brain stem when they are sideways (shooting on 3x5 cards is a great training tool that whole aim small miss small)
Then factor in most agencies took away any incentives of extra pay or getting time off or organized pistol matches.
In the 80’s and 90’s there was still a good amount of support for PPC and other pistol matches, cars in agency lots or in lockers had NRA match related stickers that has absolutely zero support today.
Then factor in today in the 80’s (and way earlier whem you look at legends like Bill Jordan, Jelly Bryson and Frank Hamer) they didn’t play a lot of golf or watch a lot of TV or have YouTube, instead they dry fired and shot live rounds almost every day
Even in the 80’s and 90’s before streaming TV shows were once a week and you either recorded it or caught it the next week.
And the mentality of new LEO’s I say new but I saw this around the late 90’s take shape.
A 10% 80% 10% breakdown.
Top 10% are your expert shooters that want to out in time they go to trainings and matches on their own time and dime. They are the Bill Jordan’s of today
Middle 80% are the average and while a few might be solid up near the top 10% in score the MAJORITY are slightly above minimum standards and several only pass by a few points and habe to reshoot every year at least once and then smart off “good enough til next year” (and those are the shoktings that become an abortion on body cameras)
The the bottom 10% are the ones that fail and cry to the union so the agency dumbs down the course and thus the atmosphere of “No Cop Left Behind” is here.
And while there is still a few agencies left that so train most do not. An example is LAPD quals and does other shooting once a month.
NYPD only quals twice a year
LAPD hit factor around 65%
NYPD hit factor 20%
Also another topic, but nobody gets failed out of academies or FTO programs much these days. I watched first hand a cadet not pass fireams at a state academy and they let him walk graduation but h wasnt certified and had to come back for specialty training the next week. And I know that’s not the only place that has the soft hamds approach these days.
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