Our organization, working with the North Sacramento Chamber of Commerce (who paid for their first year’s worth of supplies and provided an office) helped bring the Guardian Angels back to Sacramento to patrol the Parkway and North Sacramento, which we wrote about in our report at http://www.arpps.org/ARPPS%20Annual%20Report%202005.pdf (page 40) which also has a nice picture of Curtis Sliwa on the Parkway trail.
It is good to see they are still here and patrolling.
Back-Seat Driver: Guardian Angels ride the rails
By Tony Bizjak - tbizjak@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PST Monday, November 26, 2007
Light-rail riders and downtown Sacramento shoppers this holiday season may notice a few Guardian Angels watching over them.
A small group of crime-prevention volunteers has begun riding the rails and patrolling downtown streets Fridays and Saturdays in hopes of making the season a little safer.
The self-styled citizen force – currently there are seven local members – is the modest Sacramento chapter of a group that started nearly 30 years ago in the Bronx in New York City.
They're easy to recognize. Guardian Angels wear red berets, red jackets, and red-and-white T-shirts, and generally project a no-nonsense, law-and-order air.
It's not the group's first foray in Sacramento. New York founder Curtis Sliwa started a local chapter in the early 1980s. The chapter fell dormant but was revived in 2005 in Del Paso Heights.
