Rizzo was the best. I remember him well.
I kept my horse at the stable on Cathedral Avenue. When I wasn’t in school I was riding Fairmount Park with my friends or alone. I got to be good friends with all the mounted police, which was a big priority in Rizzo’s policing strategies. Rizzo loved the horses. Nothing takes the hostility out of a crowd like a line of cops on horseback. I really don’t know why? But it works.