After police and politicians have utterly failed to provide a safe Subway system in New York City, private citizens are stepping in to fill the gap.
They call themselves the Guardian Angels and it’s not the first time they’ve stepped in to help out. There’s quite a history here.
Check this out:
Guardian Angels will re-appear on subways again in response to sky-high crime pic.twitter.com/53lynsOvc6
— New York Post (@nypost) December 29, 2024
More details here from the NY Post:
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 week, founder Curtis Sliwa said Sunday.
The red-beret-wearing volunteer vigilante squad is beefing up its ranks to its level 45 years ago, Sliwa said.
“We’re going to have to increase our numbers, increase the training and increase our presence as we did back in 1979,” Sliwa said at the Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station in Brooklyn where the woman was killed.
ADVERTISEMENT“We went from 13 to 1,000 [members] back then within a period of a year,” he said. “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, 80’s and ’90s.”
Ever since last week’s shocking slaying, “hundreds of citizens” have requested the Guardian Angels return to patrol the subway cars, Sliwa claimed.
“We’re covering the actual trains from front to back, walking through the trains and making sure that everything is okay,” he told The Post on Sunday. “We’re doing this constantly now. Starting today. that’s going to be our complete focus because the subways are out of control.”
The group’s latest strategy will focus on conducting wellness checks on homeless people and emotionally disturbed individuals, he said.
The Guardian Angels will also provide water to homeless people and report any issues they come across to the NYPD, the group said.
Members of the organization last patrolled subway trains in 2020 after targeted attacks on members of the Asian community during COVID-19.
The group’s current 150 New York City members will start their patrols on trains at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station.
Last week’s arson victim, a woman who has still not been identified, was lit on fire while she slept on an F train that had pulled into the station, which is at the end of the line. Cops later arrested illegal Guatemalan migrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil for allegedly starting the fire.
Authorities said the heinous crime appeared to be completely unprovoked.
“There’s so many trains that come in and out of here,” Sliwa said. “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.”
ADVERTISEMENTSliwa said he hopes the group’s presence on the train will encourage people to not be bystanders.
“It was an example of people just not getting involved,” he said. “And we’re here to say, ‘You see something, you say something.’ You gotta do something.”
Part of the issue, according to Sliwa, is the lack of cops actively patrolling the trains to help people.
“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 said.
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BREAKING: Since NY Governor Hochul won’t do her job, the Guardian Angels are now going to start patrolling the subways again.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 29, 2024
I think it’s great, but I do have one question….
Did you see this?
What is that image right in the middle….is that a Pyramid with the All-seeing Eye in the middle?
Why would they do that?
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