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The Guardian Angels have also begun to include youth programs, teacher programs, disaster response, an Internet safety program called the CyberAngels, and self-defense courses, as well as community outreach program to address issues beyond crime. The Guardian Angels do not demand or ask for money on the subway.
The Guardian Angels, a volunteer patrol group of mostly Black and Hispanic teenagers, [107] collected thousands of dollars from subway riders toward a legal defense fund for Goetz. [96] The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a right-leaning civil rights organization, supported Goetz. [108]
The Post tagged along as the Guardian Angels launched subway patrols for the first time since 1980 amid a spike in transit crime -- and New Yorkers are on board.
The Guardian Angels are resuming their patrols of the Big Apple’s subways as if it were crime-riddled Gotham in 1979, after the horrifying arson murder of a sleeping straphanger on a train last ...
Guardian Angels in Miami Metrorail, 2001. In May 1977, Sliwa created the "Magnificent 13", a civilian group dedicated to combating violence and crime on the New York City Subway. [9] At the time, the city was experiencing a crime wave. [10] The Magnificent 13 grew and was renamed the Guardian Angels in 1979. The group's actions drew strong ...
The group, founded by former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa in 1979, began the patrols on Sunday and said three-member Angel teams will patrol troublesome subway lines around the clock.
The teen heroes who nabbed subway arson killer Sebastian Zapeta-Calil have been denied the $10,000 reward promised by the NYPD — allegedly ... according to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa ...
Because the Lexington Avenue Line during the 1970s was known to frequent muggers due to the dilapidated state of the subway at the time, the Guardian Angels, founded by Curtis Sliwa, began operations on February 13, 1979, by conducting unarmed night patrols on the 4 train in an effort to discourage crime. [41]