….Whether it’s clearing a path to get an ambulance through a tightly packed crowd outside a Badger game or getting quickly to a fight brewing at bar time on State Street, mounted police have some advantages in some venues that officers on foot or bicycles just can’t match.
Sgt. Kari Sasso of the University of Wisconsin police department often works with her horse, Vegas, a quarter horse-thoroughbred cross, at Badger football games, and the pair patrols on campus, as well.