Anthem?

[robkelk]

Local law enforcement uses horses for several reasons, including terrain, maneuverability through crowds in pedestrian environments, public relations (people seem to react to cops on horses better than cops on motorcycles sometimes), and ease of care (in rural areas). I imagine the Mounties have similar reasons.

All of those, plus the fact that many people who would quite happily trash a police car won't raise a finger to a horse.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012