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I haven't seen any comments about the Glock New York trigger, developed at the request of the NYPD (or maybe state police) to dramatically increase the force required to fire the gun. The NY trigger helps prevent inexperienced or less attentive operators from unintentionally pulling the trigger while reholstering or fumbling with the gun.

Without the NY modification, the Glock trigger is pretty light and will get you in trouble if you disregard RULE No. 1 as stated earlier, " Keep your friggin' finger off the friggin' trigger" unless you plan on shooting something.

Of course, the addition of the NY trigger makes the gun tougher to shoot well, since the trigger pull goes from around 5 lbs to 8 or 9, but it may help prevent negligent discharges like those in the article.

Boy...that sounds like the wrong direction to go with a Glock. When I got my mod 22, it already had what I thought was at least an eight pound pull.
I will confess to thinking (for a moment) that a 3-4 pound trigger might be a bit skinny when my insurance man, fireing my .40 cal Glock for the first time, put a round in the ceiling of the underground range at Burnsville, MN.

Do you have a source for this? I thought I recalled reading, re some previous case of a LEO's accidental discharge, that the NYPD Glocks were customized to have a LIGHT trigger pull -- which would go a long way toward explaining the high rate of ADs. Perhaps it was some other police department I'm remembering.