The local police force has a couple of horses, and today they showed up on a street I was walking down. I didn't see the horses themselves, but - how to put this delicately - I saw evidence that a horse had recently been there. Or a large and unwell dog; I hope it was a horse.
This isn't even the first time I've seen the unpleasant remnants of the police horses' presence. And it has me asking, isn't there a law against allowing a large mammal to take a dump on a public street? I mean, we have stoop-and-scoop laws.
See, it was a little controversial when they first got the horses a few years ago. Yes, there are some areas where horses are very useful, such as crowd control. But we don't have a lot of use for them here, and there are of course some start-up costs associated with getting your first police horses, like getting a stable. Thus, many suspected it was just because someone at the police department wanted a horse.
So I have to ask, how many crimes do you suppose the horses have prevented, and does it exceed the number of "crimes" the horses have deposited on the streets?
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