Hi All, my agency has historically kept all raw scores from firearms qualifications, i.e. 70%, 90%, etc. The good, the bad, and the ugly (or mediocre) is all recorded for posterity. Obviously that information is all subject to FOIA. I was talking with another agency's firearms guy yesterday and he said that they are considering simply putting in pass or fail for any course of fire in their official records. The thinking behind that was that there was less there for an attorney to pick apart in any given court proceeding.
So my questions...
1. Does your agency use raw scores or pass/fail? Do you know the rationale?
2. Do any of you know of any actual court cases where the officer's raw scores were brought up? If so, was there any negative to it?
My knee jerk thought is to leave it as is for us, i.e. keep the raw scores, but I'm certainly willing to hear discussions to the contrary, provided that they make sense and bring actual information, not conjecture, to the table.