First I should begin by saying I have not seen the orginal SOP9 document (if anyone has a link to it I would like to get a hold of it.) So my comments are based on the analysis done here NYPD SOP 9 - Analysis of Police Combat

The bulk of this article is an endorsement of point shooting. Much of the SOP9 material here is used as a justification of point shooting. I am not a point shooting advocate, and I don't see any evidence here to change my mind.

We would like to see granular data that gives a picture of the hit rate for officers using a crouch in low light conditions at some particular distance. What we have instead is a mixture of point shooting and aimed fire under a range of different conditions.

The main problem with this analysis is data collection. All of the measurements and analysis are happening after the fact. The details are recalled from the recollections of officers - who have a vested interest in reporting the information in such a way as to comply with department policy.

I believe that good statistics are useful for driving training but there is nothing in this report that makes me believe that point shooting is going to improve police officers hit rates.