I have been a long-time competitive shooter, in a number of venues, as well as the ex manager of a gun store. Most cops, highway patrol, etc are absolutely pitiful shooters of a handgun, definitely not above the average of the general population. Of course there are some who are gun enthusiasts, that love to shoot and are skilled. Most are not.
I always think back to the bank robbery film I think in Ca. where the bad guys had on ballistic vests, and the cops probably shot a hundred pistol rounds, and the perps were standing up straight and running through a hail of bullets, and it was of course said that the vests protected them. Anyone who has ever been hit by a bullet with a ballistic vest will tell you that you don’t just walk on, a solid chest hit will flatten you, just not kill you. In other words, the perps weren’t being hit at all, the vest was irrelevant. A .357 bullet with a vest on definitely takes your wind.
Front sight, front sight, front sight.
Fairly obvious that a lot of training is never done, or goes out the window in real life.
My answer will get me in trouble with the gun people here.
Police now want a gun that holds more bullets for these incidents.
Perhaps they should think more about putting the bullets where they need to be, and not foggin the area in hopes of getting a hit.
If they went back to revolvers maybe they would realize that it is more important to hit what you aim at than to spray bullts everywhere.
I am 70 years old and do not remember reading about perps getting hit with 15 or 30 bullets back when the cops used revolvers. Except of course Bonnie and Clyde, but the cops were using machine guns on them.