It was used and may still be used by some police.
" The 9mm round now acknowledged to work the best is a 124-grain to 127-grain high tech hollow point at a velocity of 1250 feet per second. NYPD, with some 30,000 officers carrying this type of ammo, the Speer Gold Dot +P 124-grain, is happy with the performance of its 9mm service pistols. Ditto the Orlando, Florida, Police Department, which uses the Winchester Ranger 127-grain +P+ in their standard issue 9mm SIGs."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob93.html
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." -G.S. Patton
Can't really see how they can be happy with their ammo choice.
Especially when they can't even hit their friggin targets!
Miami) Metro-Dade Police Department
Statistical Abstract of Shooting Incidents, 1988-1994
SHOTS THAT HIT INTENDED TARGET, BY TYPE OF FIREARM
HANDGUN TYPE REVOLVER SEMI-AUTOMATIC TOTAL HIT PROBABILITY
HIT SUSPECT 19 (35%) 17 (25%) 36 (30%)
MISSED SUSPECT 35 (65%) 51 (75%) 86 (70%)
TOTAL 54 (100%) 68 (100%) 122 (100%)
Recently published Metro-Dade Police 1990-2001 shooting data shed more light on issues seen elsewhere. During that 12-year period, Metro-Dade Police fired about 1,300 bullets at suspects, and missed more than 1,100 times. This suggests that Miami police fared no better than a 15.4% hit ratio, even though many of these incidents involved suspects who were later determined to be unarmed.
In yet another department study (NYPD), only 9% of the bullets hit their intended targets; 91% of the rounds fired MISSED.
NYPD GUNFIGHT STATISTICS IN 2000
HIT PROBABILITY 9%
SHOTS FIRED PER GUNFIGHT 16.8
SHOTS FIRED PER OFFICER 6.9
Sent from behind Enemy Lines.
