police dogs
Badge-wearing German shepherds
Police dogs are dogs trained to assist law enforcement—tracking suspects, detecting drugs or explosives, finding missing persons, or subduing fleeing criminals.
German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois are the most common breeds.
Also called K-9s, from the homophone of canine: The K-9 unit responded to the scene.
- handlerOne who manages something
- narcoticsDrugs inducing sleep, numbness
- drug bustLaw enforcement contraband seizure
- bloodhoundScent-tracking dog breed
- trackingMonitoring location over time
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- Alabama HistoryMontgomery, Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr.
- Jim CrowJim Crow laws, separate but equal, segregation laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, whites only
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Trained canines offering emotional aid
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Ownerless wandering canines
feral dogs · wild dogs · street dogs · dingoes · wolves
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