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Originally Posted by Dantilla
Police officers are not usually expert marksmen. They are trained to minimum police standards, and a large percentage of officers never practice more than what's necessary to qualify.
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This.
One of the firearm instructors that I have taken several classes from is a Cook County Probation Officer and range instructor for the Cook County Sherriff's Department. He says that the vast majority of officers shoot once a year for qualification, and don't fire a gun the other 364 days each year. In fact, he says that qualification days (and there are several each year as officers are qualified in groups) consist mostly about officers griping about it being too hot, too cold, too rainy, too sunny, etc..