What colour berets do the New York City crime-fighters the 'Guardian Angels' wear?
Guardian Angels organization. Sliwa also admitted that the New York City Chapter primarily patrolled the Restaurant Row section of midtown Manhattan, except for occasional well-publicized patrols in other neighborhoods and subway patrols to recruit new members. The original and main Guardian Angels activity is "Safety Patrol" in which members walk the streets or ride transit. Guardian Angels must be in uniform to represent the organization. They can be identified by their red berets and red jackets or white T-shirts with the red Guardian Angels logo of an eye inside a pyramid on a winged shield. Chapters operate similar to franchise networks supporting
Guardian Angels Guardian Angels The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organization of unarmed crime-prevention vigilantes. The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979, in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has about 100 chapters around the world. Sliwa originally created the organization to combat widespread violence and crime on the New York City Subway system. The organization originally trained members to make citizen’s arrests for violent crimes. The organization patrols the streets and neighborhoods but also provides education programs and workshops for schools and businesses. In the beginning, New York City Mayor Ed Koch publicly opposed the group.