Since neither the police nor city hall in New York City seem to be able to keep citizens safe in the Big Apple, the famed Guardian Angels have pledged to make a comeback to help patrol the subway system there.
Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angels’ founder, said that his private group will once again take to their patrols to try and help prevent violent crime.
The group was founded in the worst of the crime infested days of 1979 when authorities were wholly unable to stop the mounting crime in the Big Apple. Now it looks like those bad old days are back.
Per The Blaze:
“We went from 13 to 1,000 [members] back then within a period of a year,” Sliwa told the New York Post. “Because the need was there. The need is here now once again. We’re going to step up. We’re going to make sure we have a visual presence, just like we had in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.”
“We’re covering the actual trains from front to back, walking through the trains and making sure that everything is okay,” he said. “We’re doing this constantly now. Starting today, that’s going to be our complete focus because the subways are out of control.”
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“There’s so many trains that come in and out of here,” Sliwa stated. “It’s the perfect place because it reminds people that nobody did anything a week ago. Nobody intervened. Nobody pointed to the cops and said, ‘This is the guy.’ Even the cops didn’t do anything.”
“It was an example of people just not getting involved,” he continued. “And we’re here to say, ‘You see something, you say something.’ You gotta do something.”
Sliwa said that members of the public have been reaching out to him to get the Guardian Angels to return to their rounds.
“We’re now back to where we were when I started the group in 1979 on the subways. It’s gone full-circle. I’ve never seen it this bad. Never,” Sliwa exclaimed.
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