Originally posted by Hawk45:
Cops are notoriously bad shots. One only has to read their after action reports to see how bad. How many times have we all read about Police killing a suspect and firing OVER 50 rounds to do it?
You can make money off of them though because of it. One day the SWAT team I embarresed invitied me over to their 'range'. On it they were qualifying with their fancy Ruger Mini 14 GB models at '50' yards on a man sized B-27 target. You have seen the target a shape of a man and a smaller one in the top left corner. The team all were trying hard to qualify and were not doing so good. In fact they were doing so bad I was openly laughing at them. That really pissed them off, so they challenged me to try and get just three rounds in the black. I said fine and fired my three rounds. They started laughing and saying I had missed the target entirely. I simply said BS and would they like to bet $100 I hadn't. They stupidly took the bet. I proceeded to point out the target in the upper left corner. I collected my $100!
I was able to do this because I honestly trained, HARD every week. Sure it may have only been with a .22, but I fired EVERY week and built up proper muscle memory shooting.
Now be honest with yourself, just how hard did you train last year?
Realize that the new generation is training, and there has been heavy recruitment of Iraq war vest into law enforcement. Side are being taken right now and I can't say that all of the people jumping to the other side are tactical retards. Their skills should be taken seriously. One thing they tend to be a bit better on is the physical fitness thing, but that varies a lot, a whole lot when it comes to the LE types that were never in the military.
The other thing is that the LE community in general has also been circulating a lot of their people through Iraq deployments with the contractors, so they too are bringing some newfound skills and habits home. I understand LAPD SWAT had manned a few contractor teams in Iraq that were fairly highly respected on par with the ones that were former Delta/SEAL/Tier 1 operators.
