Marksmanship of Police Officers

[Lo-Profile]

When I worked for a armed security company in AZ back in 2011/12 ... On armed qualifying day. It was a myself and another non LEO background who were the top qualifiers .... Only about 5/40 in the class that didn't have some law enforcement background. About 10 were bad enough to not qualify.

 

[UC_Guy 1971]

My academy was in Colorado, by my agency. We shot a lot. Yearly we shot a lot and we even had open range days. Then I went to the State.

With the State we shot twice a year. We were not allowed to fire our duty guns outside of an approved range.

I would go through any door or into any situation with most of the guys and several of the gals from my original agency. I can the number of people I would trust from the State on one hand.

Military (USAF SFS) was worse than the State. I think that is why they put 3-round burst and auto on most systems.

My current agency... they are slightly worse than the State. Which is sad. Their fitness level, tactics, common sense and combatives skills are also lacking.

Very sad. Mostly distressing.

 

[Biggfoot44]

I wish I could find it, but there was a study done 10-15 years ago that studied police shootings since the 1980’s…

Basically, in the 25-30 or so years it looked at…the number of rounds fired went up drastically, while the % of hits went down.

Rephrased another way :

Revolvers give better hit percentages than semiautos.