To Kleinman, out of all DPD does, the mounted unit is one of the least necessary. "I kind of felt like if we couldn’t even shave that off of our budget, there’s no way we’re going to get the DPD budget under control,” he said. It's more than a budget issue for him. He began focusing on the history of the mounted patrols, their similarities to slave patrols, its effect on communities and the role they play in over-policing and police brutality. He cites an incident that occurred last year in Texas when a mounted officer led a Black man bound by rope down a street in Galveston. “It made me realize that that’s just part of the institutional racism that we have in our police department,” he said.