The effects of criminal victimization are often reviewed after crime has occurred, and therefore it becomes increasingly important to consider and develop crime prevention strategies as a viable ...

When it began as a full-time patrol a quarter-century ago, the San Jose Police Department’s mounted unit was funded with $70,000 in private donations from San Jose business groups concerned that ...

In the past two years, mounted police units from Boston to San Diego have gone the way of the Pony Express, the victims of tight budgets and shifting law-enforcement priorities. But in Seattle, where ...

POMONA – The Rockland Sheriff's mounted unit has been admired by spectators during parades in the past half century, but its job description is a lot more extensive than most people think. And Sheriff ...

When Dallas Police Sgt. Victor Renteria heads out for patrol, he rides on the back of Earthquake, one of the mounted unit’s tallest horses. Earthquake is just over 18 hands – about six feet tall – ...

UPDATE 4:30 P.M. APRIL 13: The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has disbanded the Mounted Unit. In a release, the department said the move was made in the face of a loss in tax revenue facing ...

PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI -- Members of the Kent County Sheriff’s Department’s mounted unit used to dream, years ago, about having their own training center - a place where horses and riders could ...

Police departments have been cutting back on use of horses. The images of Border Patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas has put scrutiny on the appropriate use of ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Editor's Note: KPD issued a correction and said this isn't the department's first-ever Mounted Patrol Unit. It said it formerly had mounted officers at various times in its early ...

The Summit County Sheriff’s Office shared a beautiful video of its mounted unit frolicking through a field of fluffy snow. At least one horse even gets down and rolls around (as seen in the video at ...

New York’s Finest are teaming up with the Great Plains’ wildest. The NYPD has roped in two wild American mustangs for its mounted unit — the first time the department has recruited horses from the ...