Curtis Sliwa: “Gangs back in 1979. If people want to know, because it's a…”

“So decades ago, of course, you founded the Guardian Angels to help patrol the subways overnight. What was the impetus? Gangs back in 1979. If people want to know, because it's a whole generational change, just look at the classic cult movie, the Warriors. Cult movie, classic. And you'll know exactly what we were dealing with. There were no cops. There were fiscal cutbacks. New York City was on the brink. Of going chapter I was a night manager of McDonald's in the Bronx, which was burning down, which had more gangs sometimes than cops, gang members.” (04:56–05:14)

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