The retired NYPD cops I know down here aren’t very impressive on the range.
NYPD gets 10 rounds a year to practise with, and that shooting they did recently showd what utter awful shots they are.
Also the guard are soldiers and soldiers have guns.
Bloomberg is an idiot and how he got to that position shows how stupid many in NY are.
With notable exceptions like Jimmy Cirillo (whom I had the pleasure of meeting and from whom I’ve taken a class), you’re right.
Cirillo had tried to do something about this in the NYPD - by getting cops interested in target shooting and shooting for more than mere qualification. To little avail, most NYPD cops are just public employees, union corruption and all.
Jimmy and his sidekick Al could run rings around most people on a handgun range - including the LAPD SWAT and other cops who were in the class I was taking.
It’s quite frankly amazing and alarming how incompetent most law enforcement agencies are about their firearms training.