He's in the back, he's searched and cuffed, end of discussion.

The title of this post if from a list of rules I read my rookies when they start field training with me. This could have come out really bad. From PoliceOne:

Searching for safety: Armed, uncuffed, and in the back of a squad

Two police officers in Minneapolis are lucky to be alive after an incident in which they allowed an armed man to sit uncuffed in the back of their patrol car.

Metro Transit Officers Jason Malland and Adam Marvin found “an open bottle of liquor” on 21-year-old Wesley Rogers, but their pat-down failed to reveal the revolver secreted in the waistband of his pants.

Because Rogers was determined to be “obviously drunk,” the two officers decided to take Rogers to his North Minneapolis home as a “courtesy.”

Video of the incident — which happened in December — was released this week, showing Rogers pulling the gun during transit, and briefly pointing it in the direction of the two officers in the front seat before twice dropping it to the floorboard of the squad...

You can read the rest but these two are lucky to be alive. Lesson leaded, bull searches, period.