Name: Antonio Dominguez

Social Justice Group: Gang violence in NYC (C)

Date of Fieldwork: January 29, 2025

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):The Guardian angels

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

This documentary was about Curtis Sliwa, who started an organization called Guardian Angels.
The Guardian Angels were a group that protected the streets and trains in NY. They hired volunteers from around the world to survey the streets. Curtis created it because he was attacked by many other gangs when he worked at McDonalds.

This made him create the group; however, it came with repercussions. People died and were injured, including Curtis, during the Guardian Angels. The Guardian Angels were a group that surveyed the streets and protected people from violence. The Guardian Angels are still a thing today, and gang violence has gone down significantly from the 1970s when gang violence was up 325%.