Study Says Police Need More Weapons Training

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Police recruits as well as veterans require more dynamic and frequent firearms training, according to a study of the New York Police Department’s shooting habits released on Monday.

The study, by the Rand Corporation, was commissioned in January 2007, about seven weeks after an unarmed Queens man, Sean Bell, died in a hail of 50 police bullets. Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said at the time that questions about the department’s effectiveness and training required an independent look at its tactics.

Rand researchers tried to tackle the phenomenon known as “reflexive shooting” or contagious shooting in which one officers’ gunshots spur a fusillade of bullets by others.