Guardian Angel eager to roust rogue cops
Guardian Angels founder and New York Republican Mayoral
candidate, Curtis Sliwa, speaks during a news conference
to promote Republican Party candidates in New York City,
U.S., Sept. 16, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid, fi le
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If elected the 110th mayor
of New York City, Republican
Curtis Sliwa vowed he will challenge
bad cops.
“They will have me to deal
with,” the crime fighting leader
of the Guardian Angels said
recently while announcing his
“save our city” bid for mayor.
The Canarsie, Brooklynborn,
Polish-Italian added that
while he intends to be tough on
rogue cops, he believes eliminating
the police department
would be disastrous to the city.
“We have to refund the police
— not defund,” Sliwa added.
During a press conference
outside Penn Station, he threw
his red beret into the race adding
to an already crowded field
of eight Democrats and Fernando
Matteo, the other GOP
contender vying for leadership
at City Hall.
Endorsed by the Brooklyn
and Staten Island Republican
Party, the anti-crime crusader
has been riding the subways,
walking the streets and with
his multi-ethnic volunteers is
credited with providing backup
security to the city for 40 years.
He believes that singular feat
could qualify his election and
leadership of the city’s eight
million plus populous.
Eight Democrats disagree
— Maya Wiley, Ray McGuire,
Shaun Donovan, Eric Adams,
Scott Stringer, Andrew Yang,
Kathryn Garcia and Diane
Morales all claim best to represent
the blue state.
All boasting impressive
record of service, their credentials
include dutiful service to
President Barack Obama and
Mayor Bill deBlasio, community
involvement, successful
private business ownership and
one campaigned last year to
become the Democratic Party’s
candidate of choice to win the
presidency of the United States.
Although the latter did
not win that bid, he received
national attention which probably
has placed him in the top
2 front position who faced off
in the first candidates’ debate
aired on NY1, the city’s all-news
cable channel.
Moderated by Errol Louis and
Brian Lehrer recently, unlike
the contentious Democratic,
2020 presidential debates, after
two hours no clear frontrunner
emerged.
Not only did Morales argue
that given the atrocities committed
against Black and brown
people would she readily defund
the police, but strongly advocated
to “disband the police.”
A defender of human and
civil rights, she provided challenging
argument with conviction
of a plan to provide an
alternative and valid policing
program.
McGuire declared he is the
“man with a plan.”
He convinced this Insider
that one does not have to be a
politician in order to implement
policies.
He offered several proposals
to improve education, the
economy and the NYPD.
Policing carved out a large
chunk of the two-hour presentation.
Though issues related
to the LGBT community, free
broadband service, housing,
immigration, homelessness,
employment, climate change
and the environment also
received hearing the fast-paced
presentation focused heavily on
safety.
Former police captain and
current Brooklyn Borough
President Adams virtually and
verbally lunged at Civil Rights
attorney Wiley who questioned
his loyalty to the party they
both represent. She all but
called his policies ‘wishy washy’
bolstering an argument that he
was a proponent of the controversial
‘stop and frisk’ police
program which allegedly profiled
Blacks.
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