Well hire better people with a higher IQ or issue 1 bullet for shirt pocket I had a MP company come to Ft Carson for summer camp . They were to ride with us on patrol Their company commander had removed the mag release from every 1911. I asked about this and their CO answer was. Most of unit was St Louis police or East St Louis
He didn't want his people shooting GI or dependents. They were to trigger happy. He Should have took their night sticks also .
What the news article claimed: "The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's recent transition to a new handgun for deputies has coincided with a sharp increase in accidental shootings, "putting officers and the public at risk," according to a newly released report."
Translation: "The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's recent failure in training for deputies is the cause of inability to handle slight changes in the arms used by the department, putting the lives of everyone at risk."
What should be done: Improve the training, so their skills are immune to changes in tools.
Instead, what will be done, like as not: Blaming the gun, not the poor operation and lack of competency.
--And a light mounted to the gun and activated by deputies squeezing a pressure switch on the handle has led to confusion in some incidents, with "a significant number of deputies reporting that they unintentionally pulled the trigger of their weapon when they intended only to turn on the light."
Mas Ayoob has a finger index that supposedly fixes that problem. Essentially what you do is index the trigger finger on the frame above the trigger but rather than keeping the finger straight, it is slightly curved. The idea is that if you reflexively curl your finger it will contract straight back above the trigger without slipping into the trigger guard.
1. This is the Los Angeles County Sheriff's County Department not LAPD. Two different agencies.
2. The M&P was issued before 2013, they started back in August of 2011 with class #385. They even tried before that but there were some problems, so August 2011 is like the full issue date.
3. Some Deputies use the "I'm use to the safety on the Beretta" excuse to explain their inability to keep their fingers off the trigger.
8hrs is more than enough and like one poster said, it just goes to show you that a lot of cops in general aren't gun people. It's very simple but seems like many can't do it.
If a civilian can learn how to keep their fingers off of a trigger, why can't a "former" civilian do the same? Considering during the academy they get more trigger time than many civilians do.
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