What would be cheaper 6 police cars or 6 police horses? Question: Just curious, I live in a small college town in Washington (Go CWU) and we have 4 different police departments policing the town (State Patrol, County Sheriff, Ellensburg PD, and CWU PD). Our city is a huge rodeo town and I our school is really into the country theme, and we spend a ton of money keeping the CWU PD employed and running their cars (Ellensburg PD hates them, they talk crap about them when I've talked to them lol). Anyways, my thought is that in a town that is so centered around rodeo, they should put the CWU cops on horses, it would make them more versatile around campus, and still give them mobility to surrounding areas. There are stables that are less than a 5 minute ride from campus so building a stable doesn't count in costs. How much does it cost a year to maintain a horse? How much for a police car?
The stables are city owned, and would be able to be used for "free". Taxes are already paying for them :)
Answer:
when you consider 2 or 3 tanks of fuel per patrol car a day plus maintenance and wear and tear depreciation on vehicle resale value average vehicle cost initialy to purchase plus signs and paint crash repair shop bills
on the other hand a horse requires hay and chaff, oats, special linaments for rub downs, someone to do the rubdowns, specialy made horse floats plus a vehicle to move the float, stables are NOT free, agistment, vet bills, someone to scoop the poop, and general care and well-being special little horse shoes so they can chase rustlers, a nice little saddle half way along its back (that reminds me of a joke but i cant tell it here) if i think of something else ill be back
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