Jason, I have spent my life around the cops here and I have yet to see a K-9 with ballistic armor. I have seen them with shoes on and SAR dogs with blaze organge or that bright reflective yellow harnesses but that is it.
On a side note, we (us kids and a lot of the family) hounded my dad for three years before he wore his vest and even then it was made mandatory by his agentcy.
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