Low-life thugs are scared of horses, so mounted police are very effective.
Exactly. The pattern here was 90% of the mob skedaddles as soon as the horses show up. To an urban dweller, police horses are scary huge- they ain’t the horses you see in the movies, they’re riot-trained war horses.
It’s because animals aren’t stupid enough or scared enough to take any crap from these feral humans.
I can’t really say the same for the rest of this society though.