sadly, most likely, we will NOT HEAR A STIR, over this :(

Why didn't the officer back off ?

too many cowboys hiding behind badges

Would someone explain to me who is familiar with guns; is it that hard to shoot a guy in the leg or the knee? With prompt trauma care, such wounds will be non-lethal 99% of time, as opposed to a torso shot. If two cops have guns at 15 ft. can't they hit a leg?

On Saturday night in New York City’s Times Square, police opened fire on a man who was walking erratically into oncoming traffic and, when approached by law enforcement, reached into his pocket as if he were grabbing a weapon. The officers fired three shots. One hit a 54-year-old woman in the knee and another grazed a 35-year-old woman’s buttocks. None hit the suspect, whom police subsequently subdued with a taser.

According to a 2008 RAND Corporation study evaluating the New York Police Department’s firearm training, between 1998 and 2006, the average hit rate during gunfights was just 18 percent. When suspects did not return fire, police officers hit their targets 30 percent of the time.

Abstract
This study aimed to examine the level of shooting accuracy demonstrated by law enforcement recruits upon
completion of their law enforcement firearms training in comparison with novice shooters.

One hundred and
ninety-five male and 52 female law enforcement recruits volunteered.

Participants were separated by firearms
experience into the following groups: expert (completed law enforcement firearms course, n = 83), intermediate
(recreational experience, n = 71) and novice (minimal/no experience, n = 93). All subjects were tested for accuracy
at target locations from 3 to 75 ft. **For all locations, no difference was found in accuracy between expert and
intermediate groups** (p > 0.30). Experts and intermediates had better results than novices on all locations (p < 0.05)
except from 3 to 15 ft. Alarmingly, experts were only 10% more accurate than novices between 3 and IS ft.

Finally,
novices and intermediate shooters were more likely to hit head locations from 3 ft (57%), whereas experts mainly
hit the body location (78%). The results of this study indicate that officers had no advantage over intermediate
shooters and a small advantage over novices.

A study of officer-involved shootings
in Philadelphia revealed that the average distance between
the suspect and officer during a shooting incident was a
mere 3.52 ft (White, 2006).

Additional research supports this lack of accuracy, indicating
that when police officers use deadly force, **more often
they miss the target than actually hit the target** (Matulia,
1985). Although hit rates across different police agencies
vary, officer hit rates often do not exceed 50% during
officer-involved shootings (Copay and Charles, 2001; Geller
and Scott, 1992). In a national survey completed by the
Dallas Police Department (1992), hit rates were recorded
as low as 25% in some locations.

A Hail of Bullets, a Heap of Uncertainty - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/weekinreview/09baker.html?mcubz=3

Dec 9, 2007 - They shot and killed nine people that year. In all shootings — including those against people, animals and in suicides and other situations — New York City officers achieved a 34 percent accuracy rate (182 out of 540), and a 43 percent accuracy rate when the target ranged from zero to six feet away.

The reason half these pigs became LEOs is so they could justify shooting people of color. No more, no less.

All I can say that matters is, if you think it's too loud, it is too loud and you should do your best to protect your hearing.

Quote The other question is, who aspires to become a cop? And why?Here

Constant decision/firearm training under stress is key and something 9 out of 10 departments don't do since it's expensive and takes a huge amount of time. Even with training, what somebody will actually do in a real life situation under perceived imminent threat is largely unpredictable.

Just because Midwestern universities and colleges have been largely spared the left-wing violence that has marred campus events on the West and East coasts doesn’t mean the heartland is a safe space for conservative students.