claim: "trained police hit their targets less than 30 percent of the time."
author: shannon watts
evidence_1: yet, even with all of their training, it's hard for police officers to hit a target and ...  in their shooting than those who had not had any law enforcement handgun  training. ... average hit rate in situations in which fire was not returned was 30  percent. ... hitting their targets 37 percent of the time at distances of seven yards  or less; ...
evidence_2: sep 16, 2013 ... on saturday night in new york city's times square, police opened fire on a ... in  times square showed yet again that even highly trained police are not ... did not  return fire, police officers hit their targets 30 percent of the time.
evidence_3: may 30, 2018 ... do police bullets really hit their target less than 30 percent of the time? ...  trained police hit their targets less than 30% of the time, yet the ...
evidence_4: dec 9, 2007 ... police often don't hit their target, but not because of bad aim. ... subtext that goes  to the heart of police training: is there a middle ground? ... where there are far  fewer shots discharged, the police fired 67 times in 2006 and had 27 hits, a 40  percent hit rate, which, while better than new york's, still shows that ...
evidence_5: feb 27, 2018 ... there are many things we can do to make our schools safer, but ... professional  police officers hit their intended targets less than 20 percent of the time in training  ... represents a further encroachment of the police state into schools, amid ...  based on a recent report from the pew research center, 30 percent ...