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Reader: Cops on Horses Are Helpful, if This Is the Wild West

By Devin Desjarlais Tue., May 31 2011 at 4:01 PM
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Get 'em, cowboy.
​Have you ever looked at the Fort Lauderdale cops on horseback and wondered how they'd really stop a crime if there's a getaway car? We all have.

We brought you a story this morning explaining the "mounted unit" and how they serve the city. One reader thinks the unit is incredibly beneficial to the city -- especially when Billy the Kid rolls into town.


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one purpose the police horses are used for i have personally witnessed is scaring the shit out of homeless people.

Virgil Starkwell
Virgil Starkwell

The best way to emasculate those on horseback is to reassign them to the segway patrol with the funny helmets. That must be akin to being sent to Siberia.

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