NY Post: Urban cowboys! Inside the wild world of NYPD horse cops
https://nypost.com/2024/05/30/us-news/inside-the-wild-world-of-nypd-horse-cops
From NY POST:
It might seem like an easy gig to be a horse cop — but neigh!
Six new NYPD mounted unit officers are undergoing a rigorous 3-to-6-month training program in the Bronx to build up their horses’ chaos sensory tolerance before they can be enlisted to hoof it through the wild streets of Times Square.
To ease the transition from bucolic to bustling, the four-legged crime fighters are blasted with audio recordings ranging from bagpipes to helicopters at the unit’s training facility in Pelham Bay Park, police in the unit said Thursday during a tour of the grounds.
The highly sensitive animals are also exposed to the sound of gunfire, trotted through hanging foam curtains and across zebra-striped platforms to get them ready for patrol, the officers said.
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