Hurricane Harvey made landfall Friday night near Houston, Texas. The Category 4 storm with winds of 130 mph dumped up to 30” of rain on Houston, the 4th largest U.S. city with 2.3 million people. Downgraded today to a tropical storm, Harvey is headed back into the gulf where it will regain strength and make a [...]
We’ve written before about citizens punching police horses, their acts of “bravado” quickly met with arrest. Sadly, it happened again last weekend and the perpetrator is now sitting in jail unable to pay the hefty $100,000 bail. Pennsylvania State Capitol building A 23-year-old woman was part of a demonstration that began on the Capitol [...]
Officer Moonshine Austin, Texas police have arrested a man accused of drunkenly punching one of their patrol horses in the nose. A mounted patrol officer spotted an intoxicated man staggering around a busy intersection on Friday night. Police say when they approached him they could smell a strong odor of alcohol and the man’s [...]
Jakar was one of those horses that slipped through the cracks through no fault of his own. A few years ago he was sold for slaughter but luck was on his side. Someone purchased him and donated him to the Cleveland Police Department’s mounted unit. On January 20, Jakar was front and center in the President’s [...]
Detroit, Michigan is known as the “Motor City” a moniker earned by the many automotive companies established there. The first of course was Henry Ford who started selling Model T’s in 1908. These first cars had a top speed of 45 mph fueled by a 20 horse power engine. However, Henry’s Model T wasn’t the first [...]
Mounted Patrols work for some communities while others find the units cost prohibitive and relatively ineffective. For decades, horses have patrolled the crowds at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, New York. Phil Collins performed there in 1994 under the unit’s watchful eye. Sadly, as Phil’s lyrics go – the mounted patrol “…won’t be there no more, [...]
