Live shooter @ 34th and 5th is a nightmare tactical scenario for the defender(s), not sure how to run the scenario with a good outcome.
I suspect that most of the arm chair critics have never even been to Mid-town Manhattan at 9:00 am on a work day. There were probably more people within a hundred yards of the shooter than than the total number of people who live in the little towns and villages where these critics reside.
With that said, I know several NYC cops, and I'm willing ot bet that I spend more time at the range in a month than they spend in a year.
“Live shooter @ 34th and 5th is a nightmare tactical scenario for the defender(s), not sure how to run the scenario with a good outcome.”
Here is a simple answer:
1. Shootee is 8 feet away from the shooters.
2. Shooters have been trained to hit the bullseye of a standard Police “L” target. That is a five inch diameter black disk.
3. Shooters are on the streets in uniform and are “qualified” to carry and use their weapon. Supposedly, they can hit that 5 inch circle at 75 feet.
4. FIrearms trainers assume a 12 inch circle will cover vital organs in a center of mass body shot. Students are trained to place 2 rounds center of mass and then 1 round in the head if the shootee keeps on approaching or is otherwise a lethal threat.
5. Remember that the head of the shootee is larger than five inched in diameter (assuming he is not a Libtard).
6. Any qualified shooter should have been able to do body shot hits, if not head shots at 8 feet.
As the Libtards on National Palisimian Radio like to say, “Let’s do the numbers”. Shooters (NYPD Boyz-N-Blu) do not keep their bullets in the shootee’s body at a range of 8 feet!
Require all training to be done by an independent business, and use open bids to select the training company.
Trainers like Front Sight, and Profire, to use just two that I am familiar with, could easily provide qualified training and turn NYPD police into competent shooters, not merely “Deadly Donut Eaters”.
Matter of fact, a trainer at Profire can put all of his Glock magazine through the hole in a donut at 8 feet. His wife could easily center all of her shots in the hole.
NRA has it right - “Practice Does not make Perfect. Perfect Practice makes Perfect”.
As NYC will soon discover, training is cheaper than judgements.
Conclusion: NYPD has inadequate hand gun training.
Not a difficult task, by the way as my students can all do that and they are beginning shooters.
3. Said bullseye is
Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
-- Ripley, Aliens