Very few cops actually shoot well. Most of them do their annual qualifiers and that’s it.
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“Very few cops actually shoot well. Most of them do their annual qualifiers and that’s it.”
I suspect that is true in a lot places. Thankfully, here in my rural area, the officers spend a lot of time at the range or at a friend’s home range doing a lot of fun target shooting.
For one of the by-standers in this situation to be shot four time makes me think at least one of the officers thought HE was the suspect and was deliberately shooting at him. To hit the wrong person four times certainly had to be deliberate.
THIS
Especially female ones.
More importantly, they are wired to shoot, not make shoot-don’t-shoot decisions.
Ok just a sec
As recently as 15 years ago, the Albuquerque police used to be the gold standard for police marksmanship and taking down legitimate bad guys. Before the Middle East wars. The navy even sent seals to go train with them. Then the local press and democrats started some silly body count. They kept score how many bad guys shot vs how many officers wounded. The ratio showed the cops were unfair.
They took away officers used of personal pistols, then they started requiring college degrees. Then they vastly expanded internal affairs where they literally have one IA guy for each field officer. Then they started aggressively pushing for females, gays, minorities and people with a therapeutic mentality. The city asked the DOJ to appoint a Federal master who approves all training… and he carefully looks at all of it for anything that seems even slightly aggressive.
They hired chiefs from woke cities around the country, including one who didn’t even bother with getting certified as a cop in NM. They just called him a chief of staff.
And you wind up with 4 woke cops including two women lighting up a guy with a knife and hitting two bystanders in the barrage.
It’s an embarrassment to people who know how APD was before woke.
And is that Qualifier with Static or Dynamic Targets ???