I'm going to make two likely guesses here. First, the residents aimed at the center of the chest. It is the largest area and easy to aim at. Not only that it is where a firearm self defense course will teach you to aim. Second, it is almost a certainty that the police were wearing body armor/ballistic vests. This protects the body center mass. The only truly effective aiming point is the head, a much smaller & harder to hit target.
In absence of any information I suspect the officers were hit in the arms, legs, or maybe even s lucky throat/head shot. The police OTOH were shooting at unprotected people where a body center mass shot would be effective.
In spite of the fact that more criminals are obtaining ballistic vests it is still a rarity on the streets. Not every incident is a North Hollywood Bank of America robbery. That by the way is the classic example of the police being outgunned. They were shooting .38 caliber 6-shot pistols at heavily body armored robbers firing fully-automatic assault weapons. Every weapons upgrade the police make can be traced directly back to that event. Police now routinely wear ballistic vests, carry semiautomatic pistols, and have fully-automatic AR-15 rifles in their patrol units.
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Re: Firearms Training
I'm going to make two likely guesses here. First, the residents aimed at the center of the chest. It is the largest area and easy to aim at. Not only that it is where a firearm self defense course will teach you to aim. Second, it is almost a certainty that the police were wearing body armor/ballistic vests. This protects the body center mass. The only truly effective aiming point is the head, a much smaller & harder to hit target. In absence of any information I suspect the officers were hit in the arms, legs, or maybe even s lucky throat/head shot. The police OTOH were shooting at unprotected people where a body center mass shot would be effective. In spite of the fact that more criminals are obtaining ballistic vests it is still a rarity on the streets. Not every incident is a North Hollywood Bank of America robbery. That by the way is the classic example of the police being outgunned. They were shooting .38 caliber 6-shot pistols at heavily body armored robbers firing fully-automatic assault weapons. Every weapons upgrade the police make can be traced directly back to that event. Police now routinely wear ballistic vests, carry semiautomatic pistols, and have fully-automatic AR-15 rifles in their patrol units.