Yeah, it was 2006. My mom just sent me a HIGHLY excerpted EMail that painted a skewed picture. The full story brought to mind many questions. Why a 62% hit ratio from a "highly trained" SWAT team, and the 9 that fired only carried 12 rounds each? Among other questions.
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That is the quote of the decade.
Back around four months ago in Germany....some nutcase came out and threaten some folks on the street with a knife. German cops arrive...give some brief warning....fire one shot and that took the guy down.
After that, there was a commentary that over an entire year within Germany....in performance of duties, cops fire roughly 80-to-100 rounds total (in an entire year, in a country of 81-million people). That’s it. While they don’t show a lot of statistics over the topic....generally, the cops in Germany get enough practice that they don’t need twenty rounds to take down some guy.
If the cops needed in this case....68 rounds to take down the guy...he must have been mighty powerful to keep going forward and need more rounds to take him down.
110 rounds fired-68 hits. that seems like an excessive amount of missing. sloppy.
Search didn’t find it because it was posted ten years ago. Just sayin’ because I think it’s worth posting again. Can you imagine if this happened today? Never mind that he shot the cop 10 or 12 times. Wouldn’t matter to the race baiters.
Also, the cops shot him 68 times because he was in in heavy undergrowth, down in a hole, under a big fallen tree. He pointed his gun at them and he had already killed a cop. They probably couldn’t even tell if they were hitting him. But why take a chance?
The incident and the linked article are ten years old.
I don’t get why it is posted now...
This happened close to me. Matt and his K9 had tracted a suspect that tried to break in my shop. His killer was dug in under a fallen tree in the woods with heavy cover and only fraction of exposure. The 110 rounds fired only took 8 seconds and it was over. I have the audio saved and will post in a moment. Sheriff Judd was on the phone with FOX news when it happened.
62% is because they’ve highly trained and rifles.
Every time I read about a shooting with a lot of rounds spent I do the math.
NYC years ago 2 cops and a guy reaching for his wallet at pistol range. 40 rounds 18 hits.
Lots of factors, adrenaline probably number 1. Range time and bullet choic or sight adjustment also.
suspect was in a hole
I remember reading about this when it happened.
I also remember the Polk County Sheriff’s statement that we shot him 68 times because that was all the bullets on them at the time.
I thought, good, no claims of police brutality or some lawyer finding a loophole.
Same we should do with terrorists.
I remember seeing this on Fox...and remember the quote. Remembered the K-9 being hit.....
Sounds like an execution. Further, did emotion impact accuracy or are they really such bad shots?
That's awful. Imagine if the suspect was carrying 69 bullets!
“”That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,” Judd said”
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