No mention of how often they mount their weapon sights backwards
New York City police officers fire their weapons far less often than they did a decade ago, a statistic that has dropped along with the crime rate. But when they do fire, even at an armed suspect, there is often no one returning fire at the officers. Officers hit their targets roughly 34 percent of the time.
When they fire at dogs, roughly 55 percent of shots hit home. Most of their targets are pit bulls, with a smattering of Rottweilers and German shepherds.
Officers’ guns go off unintentionally or by accident for a variety of reasons: wrestling with suspects, cleaning the weapons, leaning on holsters — even once, in 1996, when a gun was put in an oven for safekeeping.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I don’t know if I’m right, but 34% sounds impressive, relative to the nationwide average.
Isn’t the average hit-rate for police in the 15-20% zone?
May 8th, 2008 at 8:54 am
I knew I was doing something wrong! I’ve been keeping mine in the microwave!
May 8th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Yea, I gotta wonder about that. Is it 34% of shots fired, or is it “per shooting incident, when shots are fired by NYPD, 34% of the time there is at least one hit, no matter how many rounds are fired”?
May 8th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I’ve told you this before. Officer pictured is not NYPD. Port Authority of NY and NJ PD. They are very mean idiots.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
The original press photo IDed him as a member of NYC’s Hercules terror response team. Of course, the original was on yahoo news and those links have long since gone stale.
In other news, you’ve dropped the sockpuppet. Is that because you’re not calling me an authoritarian fuckhead this time?
May 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
“In other news, you’ve dropped the sockpuppet. Is that because you’re not calling me an authoritarian fuckhead this time?”
No idea what you are talking about.
Anyhow, wrong insignia. And the picture is a photoshop as the perspective is impossible unless you are hovering 20 feet off the ground or likewise the twice the size of andre the giant.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
You’re a liar. Nothing new.
Could be a photoshop. But the officer and gun are not. I never asked the AP.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Again, no idea what you are talking about. I would never call you an authoritarian fucktard. That would assume something. So what are you talking about?
May 8th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
A particularly nasty comment that I received that matched one of your various IPs. It’s possible someone is impersonating you but I rather doubt it.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I went up, as a defense attorney, against this one cop twice. He was a piece of work. Here’s a story his fellow officers say about him:
He pulls a traffic stop. He takes the drivers and passengers out of the car, cuffs them, and then frisks the car. He finds a S&W Model 19 on the floor of the backseat passenger compartment. He takes them all in on illegal possession. He calls up the serial number of the revolver to the City of Chicago registration database. It comes back, “It’s registered to [the cop I’m talking about]”.
It fell out of his holster while he was rooting around the backseat compartment and he never even felt it missing from his holster.