Thread: NY man shot 21 times by police ...... expected to live

Originally Posted by thehekler

As an American I am embarassed by the accuracy of our police force. Police in European countries often do not carry guns and while that probably says more about the culture of Europe versus the USA. European officers that do carry guns are often issued with .22 I believe, meanwhile in the USA our officers need 9mm (10mm in the case of the FBI) because their accuracy is so lousy that they need a hit to do maximum damage. I know it's unfair to compare the accuracy of a French officer using a .22 to that of an nypd officer using a 9mm obviously the larger round is harder to control but I feel that a accuracy of approx. 50% is very much to low especially when it places bystanders and fellow officers at risk. I find the issue of accuracy much more of a problem than the overwhelming force used, as long as the suspect is discovered to have somehow threatened those nearby requiring deadly force

Here they carry 9mm. Special teams have several other calibers available. Can't say about 22, might as well be.
As someone wisely said here, it is not the caliber but aim that counts. And your ability to stay calm and handle a weapon in hazardous situation. I'm not saying anything against police members in general as i respect the risky work they do every day.

What it comes to situation in the op we have to remember that it is just a news story and we do not know how things exactly went. However if it happened even closely as stated in the news then there's something maybe to worry about. Luckily there was just one dead (and hope it was the right guy) as it might have gone much worse.