LE training is my realm so here’s the real stats. Nationally Police have a 20% or less hit %. I have similar examples from FLETC but to give credit Here’s some stats from Tom Givens at Range Master and his resources on two major meteo areas.
NYPD qualified twice per year and have a hit % of between 10-20%. LAPD required to shoot monthly and have a 55% hit rate while the LAPD Meto aka Gunfighter have an 85% rate.
Here is the problems. A state mandated qualification with B27’a and gratis time limits so not prepare LEOs like they think they do.
First B27 8 ring is huge. The 8 ring is usually given as full value for Indiana as example if no ILEA targets are available many agency’s can use B 27’s and everything 8 ring and In are full value everything else on target is half. So while someone is “Awesome” at say 100% all the outer 8 rings is not an effective fight stopper on a real bad guy.
also factor in the 10 and X ring on a B27 is way low and also not an effective place to put rounds if you want to stop a fight. Only upper thoracic area of brain stem hits stop bad guys. That’s why LEOs shoot 12 times and fail to immediately stop threats as a whole.
The departments that have 85% hit rates are like Bakersfield and Kern County California that do the backersfield every few weeks. That 10 round course requires speed assessment and above all else accuracy.
Departments that would use some Range Master or Justin Dyal Assessment drills on B8 repair center and require or get shooters up to a 80-90% would correct those dismal hit percentages.
Until agencies out more emphasis back into actual marksmanship instead of inclusion training here we are!
Civilians are sort of similarly with LE. That is there is an 10% 80% 10% breakdown.
Top 10% are your good shooters that practice and go to training on their own time and some. Then the middle 80% meet minimum standards most by just a few points OR are the ones that have to re shoot every year twice and then quip “good enough til next year”
Then the bottom 10% are why the Unions and admin dumb it down Even the Federal Air Marshals made their course easier as did a ton of other agencies. Up until around 1998 Indiana required a 50 yard stage and they cut it out.
That’s the short answer overall LE (and most civilians) are not quite as “Awesome” John Wick like as they think they are.
