blah blah blah...despite your self professed training.
Hopefully, you're just a troll.
I'm not a troll, and I've said nothing about my training, nor about my ability. The only thing I've had to say about that is that you and any other poster here has no idea what others online can or cannot do. You have no idea about my training, and I don't really care about yours, either. I've said nothing about my ability, skill, or otherwise.
What I have said, and correctly so, is that a shooter who can't make better than 20% of his rounds land on target, whether on paper or under stress in a shooting, needs to get retrained. We're not talking suppressive fire. We're talking about police who miss four out of five times in a gunfight.
The majority of those participating here, if not all of those participating here, are the officers who do take an active interest in firearms, in training, etc. Those here aren't the ones missing four out of five shots. Those here don't account for but a fraction of law enforcement in the United States. There's no question that there are law enforcement officers who will be very effective in an encounter, given the chance. There's also no question that there are a lot of officers out there who have no firearms experience, minimal training, and who do nothing more than shoot quarterly or semi-annually, and who take no more thought or effort to seek more training, develop proficiency, or to learn. There are a lot of them.
It's unfortunate that your feelings are hurt by the truth, or that you're emotionally invested at all. A hit ratio of one out of five is pathetic, dangerous, and unacceptable, and there are a LOT who accept it. It seems that you're a leading apologist, and that's very unfortunate. If you happen to be one who shoots that badly under pressure, or if you happen to believe that doing any better represents some higher level of skill, then god help you and the public at large. It's not an acceptable level of performance by any standard.
Nobody expects you or me or anyone else to enter a gunfight and put every round in a one inch circle. It is expected that you are fully accountable for every shot you fire. Perhaps you're comfortable with four out of every five going somewhere other than where you intended to shoot. If so, seek more training.
I doubt you're that person. You probably wouldn't be here if you were. If you're an apologist for that person, however, you're no different. If you think that level of performance is acceptable, then you're no better, regardless of how you shoot, or how you fight.
I'm a long time martial artist. I understand as well as anyone that even in an unarmed conflict, there's always a high potential to get hurt. In a knife fight, one is going to get cut, quite likely badly. A gunfight, there's a good potential to get shot. The recent law enforcement seminar that I attended, referenced earlier, emphasized the poor level of training and performance of officers, and the need to seek training on one's own. Case after case was presented, many of them using video, officers dying due to lack of proficiency. Video after video was shown of officers doing magazine dumps into a subject, in a few cases unarmed subjects, and a lot of discussion was had about the mental state and the reasons. Some officers present seemed surprised. They shouldn't have been, but they were. The only thing that can get messier than a gunfight is a knife fight. I bear scars from knives that have gone all the way through, stitches in and out, and can attest to the potential and the results. It happens, no matter how much you train, no matter how prepared you think you might be.
If you think you're trained enough, then you're not. If you feel ready, then you need to go back and train. There will never come a point when training is over. There will always be a lot to learn. Accepting 4 out of 5 wild shots as the norm is unacceptable. It will always be unacceptable. Those who accept it, who see it as the status quo and an acceptable one, are the core of the problem. Do you see four out of five missed shots as acceptable?