There is a post at Reddit from a gentleman who claims to be an NYPD officer and he offers a candid assessment of the training that NYPD cops get.
We wrote last week about the Empire State Building shooting and cited the 12-pound triggers on NYPD guns as a contributing factor, but it would seem that’s just the tip of the iceberg according to this cop.
[Editor: I’ve re-posted it in its entirety because he says he’s going to take it down shortly.]
I’m posting this here instead of politics or AMA because I’d rather talk about gun side of things because I want to answer and discuss issues
NYPD officer here to answer any questions. Here are some facts:
•Every officer hired since the introduction of pistols in the NYPD back in the early nineties is NOT allowed to use a revolver as their service weapon. They must choose between a Glock 19, S&W 5946, or a Sig p226. All of these guns are in DAO variant and have NO external safety.
•Everyone who is allowed to carry a gun in the department (not everyone is) has to re-qualify once every six months (give or take, it’s been as short as five and as long as nine sometimes).
•MOST NYPD officers fire their FIRST gun, ever in their entire lives, at the police academy, some as young as 21 to as old as 35 shooting for their very first time, and on a DAO pistol.
•The qualifications are HORRIBLE mad get dumbed down every year.
•The NYPD offers once a month training for members to use, on their own time. However, all that is done during these sessions are the same basic dumbed down qualification exercises. You will only receive real help if you outright fail. Missed 12 out of fifty @ 7 yards? GOOD ENOUGH!
•Our tactical training is a joke and maybe ten people in a department of 34K have had Active Shooter training (I’m not exaggerating).
There is a lot broken, basically.
Some of our members NEVER take their service weapons out of their gun belts, and never carry ANYTHING off duty. I’ve seen people with 3 years on have brown rusted rear sights. Some never clean their weapons unless forced to by the firearms unit.
The NYPD has been tight fisted with ammo for the longest time. Take your one box and be happy.
I’ll answer any questions you guys have.
PS: Our holsters are shit also.
EDIT: Replaced DOA with DAO
EDIT: It’s true, twelve pins trigger springs suck
EDIT: We at only allowed Gen3 Glocks.
UPDATE: Guys I’ll be back tomorrow morning and I might send the verification to HCE.
Verification Update: I’m not sending any pictures of anything. The purpose of this throwaway is just to answer any questions you all might have. I’m sorry but that’s the way it will be. I will probably keep answering until the end of the week, then I will delete this account or let the mods archive it if they want. My job has a zero tolerance policy on officers making it look bad online.
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