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NYC shooting...
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:21 pm
by stevie_d_64
http://wcbstv.com/local/nypd.hairbrush. ... 66278.html
5 officers, 20 shots fired, 8 hits...
Whats that, about an 8% (per officer) accuracy rating??? I dunno, my math is a bit fuzzy sometimes...
Death by cop seems to be the moral of this story though...And its sad...I don't fault the officers here...
But I thought the NYPD carried non-lethals???
Apparently not in this case...
Re: NYC shooting...
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:36 pm
by KBCraig
stevie_d_64 wrote:
5 officers, 20 shots fired, 8 hits...
Whats that, about an 8% (per officer) accuracy rating???
8/20 = 40%
NYPD accuracy is improving.
Re: NYC shooting...
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:24 pm
by stevie_d_64
KBCraig wrote:stevie_d_64 wrote:
5 officers, 20 shots fired, 8 hits...
Whats that, about an 8% (per officer) accuracy rating???
8/20 = 40%
NYPD accuracy is improving.
Yeah but, don't you have to figure out the average of officers involved...5???
That means an average of 4 shots, right??? Per officer???
But yeah, the accuracy might be improving...
So between one and two shots per officer made hits...And the other 3 or 4 possibly missed...If you average it out...
I know...I'm being a pain...
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:27 am
by barres
Okay, the officers averaged 1.6 hits each (8 total hits / 5 officers).
The officers fired an average of 4 shots (20 total shots / 5 officers).
Each officer's hit percentage is 40% (1.6 hits / 4 shots * 100 = 40).
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:00 am
by stevie_d_64
I think I didn't carry a two, or missed a decimal point...
Ugh...Its the simple math that messes you up every time!!!
Like programming a mission profile for a Mars mission in English units and loading the metric conversion instead...
You end up making a nice 10 billion dollar crater on a planet that we won't visit physically, much less look at a hole in the ground for a 100 years or so...
Somebody at that time will walk up on it and say, "Hey, who did this?"
Re: NYC shooting...
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:06 am
by KBCraig
stevie_d_64 wrote:KBCraig wrote:stevie_d_64 wrote:
5 officers, 20 shots fired, 8 hits...
Whats that, about an 8% (per officer) accuracy rating???
8/20 = 40%
NYPD accuracy is improving.
Yeah but, don't you have to figure out the average of officers involved...5???
That means an average of 4 shots, right??? Per officer???
As barres demonstrated, the ratio remains the same. If there were 20 officers firing one shot each, the hit ratio was still 8/20, or 40%.