When I was at the range for the PPC match, there was a shooter who was using some flavor of 1911 in .40 S&W. He was picking up a lot of brass on the range, far more than he would have shot. When I asked where all it was coming from, he said that it was from cops who shot in the match-- they don't pick up their brass.
It seemed kind of wasteful, but then I thought a bit about it. Back in the revolver days, there was a story about a cop in a gunfight who, at the end of the fight, found that his pants pocket was full of expended cartridges (or was found dead). Apparently the range officers in his department didn't like to have bass littering their ranges. Police departments then figured out that it was better to have ranges with empty brass lying around than to have cops picking up their brass in the middle of a gunfight.
The other thing, of course, is that if the cops now picked up their brass, that would alter the scene for any post-shooting investigation.
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Indeed, one of the pieces of evidence used to convict the two Border Patrol agents who shot the Mexican guy in the back was the fact that they picked up their brass. Tampering with evidence is not looked upon kindly in today's modern police departments. (I still say that those two must have really been dirty if the blue wall of silence did not protect them even then).
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