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Curtis Sliwa
Founder, The Guardian Angels
Curtist Sliwa is an activist and the founder of the Guardian Angels, a volunteer anti-crime organization. Founded in 1979 in New York, the group now leads unarmed safety patrols and spearheads educational programs in over 140 cities around the world. In 1992, Sliwa was ambushed by two gunmen from inside a stolen taxi in New York; he managed to escape but was shot repeatedly. John A. Gotti, son of the late Gambino family crime boss John Gotti, was charged with conspiring to murder Sliwa, but the case ended in a mistrial. Sliwa is currently a conservative radio talk show host.
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A conversation with the founder of the Guardian Angels
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“You wouldn’t be able to get married in my society until you were 30,” says Sliwa.
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Crime is under better control than it was 30 years ago, but recession era cuts to police budgets threaten the status quo.
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Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa demonstrates three potential scenarios for a wannabe “do-gooder” to perform a citizen’s arrest.
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Despite what “brainiacs” from the Ivy League may say, Curtis Sliwa insists that citizens arrests have been “embedded in the fabric of the law since the Magna Carta.”
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If you’re attacked, the best thing to do is “make the hunter become the hunted,” says Sliwa.
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Curtis Sliwa recounts in vivid detail how in 1992 a seemingly normal cab ride turned into a near-death experience, leaving him shot and bleeding on a New York sidewalk.