Maybe police officers should just automatically slay any dogs in any vehicles they stop.
That way, the potential threat (from the dog anyway) would be reduced to zero.
Their safety is paramount, after all.
I knew I was going to take a lot of flak for my stand, but that's what makes FR fun.
LOL!
Why stop with beloved family pets?
Institute a 'scoring system' that will allow these obtuse, burr-headed boneheads to quantify their sophomoric flights of cowardly paranoia on a checklist.
Anyone scoring over 50 un-good-suspicious-non-compliant points is selected for termination.
Mount a couple of miniguns on the roof of their cruiser and you have the means to dispense good-quick-road-justice to the evil not-good-citizens.
Don't just kiss the jackboot, Herr Mulder!... LICK it!