NYPD Mounted Police Heroes, Part I Since 1871, the year that the Board of Police established the first official Mounted Police Unit in New York City, more than a dozen mounted patrolmen have been killed in the line of duty in horse-related incidents. Most of these men died after being violently thrown from their horses […]
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1919 and 1922: Bulb, the Bad-Luck Police Horse of the NYPD Mounted Police
Posted: 14th August 2013 by The Hatching Cat in FDNY Horses/Mascots, Horse TalesTags: 73rd Precinct, Christopher J Tierney, Flatbush Avenue, Frank J Mace, Kings Highway, Mounted Unit, New York History, NYPD, Police horse
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