You have to do a cost benefit analysis. Yes, sometimes police are shot at when they perform a traffic stop. But it's very rare. I can't find statistics on the n

You have to do a cost benefit analysis. Yes, sometimes police are shot at when they perform a traffic stop. But it's very rare. I can't find statistics on the number of times police were shot at during a traffic stop, but only 42 officers where shot and killed in the line of duty last year, and there were 13 million traffic stops.