2 NYPD officers shot and wounded in the Bronx

"Just 20 feet separated the cops from the suspect as the two sides squeezed off 19 shots — a furious fusillade that ended when one of the cops' shots knocked the suspect's pistol out of his hand and severed his middle finger.

When it was over, Det. Daniel Rivera was bleeding from a bullet wound to his forehead and Det. William Gonzalez was clutching his bleeding right shin, police said.

Nearby, alleged gunman Jermaine Taylor, 18, was sprawled on the ground with a broken hip and holding the bleeding stump on his right hand, police said.

Rivera and Gonzalez, both 41, were in stable condition at St. Barnabas Hospital and were expected to be released later today.

A third detective involved in the shooting, Thomas Murphy, 37, was treated for ringing in his ears.

Despite being on the ground with a smashed pelvis, Taylor fired off six shots from a .9 millimeter semi-automatic pistol at the detectives, who shot back 13 times.

Browne said Rivera fired five times, Gonzalez fired five times, and Murphy three times."

Lets see now; while laying on his back with a broken hip, bad guy cranks out 6 from a .9 millimeter...smallest caliber handgun ever made I suspect...and scores 2 grazing shots. He's an untrained amateur, still a kid really, but manages to make a third of his rounds hit something.

Good guys return fire, 13 times...at a distance of 20' mind you...and land once.

Day after day, we speak of civilians killing such thugs with little ado, and 3 highly trained specialists working for the largest armed police force in the world can barely shoot a guy... in his gun?

Something is seriously wrong with this story.

(I've included a picture from the NY Post that features the officer, who while running down the alley and ducking and banging into this and that, probably scraped his forehead and thought he'd been shot. The little pimple is simply NOT a bullet wound. Shrapnel from a ricochet, perhaps. Oft times cops are referred to as "being shot" after receiving cuts and scrapes from flying debris, usually from their own making. The other officer with the bleeding kneecap most likely received his wound in similar fashion. Why is this distinction important? Because if you open fire in full frontal spray and pray mode in a confined space you are BOUND to create negative feedback. Bad tactics, bad training, bad results. Experienced personnel are aware of this, and don't blame the bad guys but look for ways to make the good guys more proficient.)