Knowing that many gang members go to schools, if for nothing more [than] to recruit and sell drugs, they're going to be able to resolve their disputes in the classrooms, in the lunchrooms, within the school buildings itself, because now they won't even fear… a pat-down or having to go put their backpack through a metal detector, this is not focusing on what the real problem is.

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My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

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What we do best is we target the young men and women who are on the fringe. They could go either way. Maybe they have been in trouble before, but not serious trouble. ... We cherry-pick them and circumvent them away from the gang members and drug dealers ... (and encourage) them to hang out with us and become a Guardian Angel.

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If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

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I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.

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It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

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I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

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Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.

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No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

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I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

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I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

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I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

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I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

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invincible thinking

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.

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Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

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People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

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I have the ability to see results six months later and there's no better feeling. We impact on thousands of people in the world. And in New York, which is the roughest, when people appreciate what we're doing, it puts the Simoniz back on the apple.

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January 2, Eric Adams is going to Florida like Eric Adams just won the Super Bowl ? how about staying here in New York City and helping to improve and not to move. Keep the people that are already here.

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Because I experienced the benefits first-hand, I want more Gifted and Talented programs, not less, the Gifted and Talented Program should not be diluted, nor should it be discontinued.

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Where are they doing outreach ? Who have they brought to a psychiatric facility ? Who have they brought to renew the prescriptions these men and women desperately need ?

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This is signage that is evident almost everywhere across the State of New York, where the state has any kind of facility, park -- any kind of edifice, any kind of building, let this be the first of many changes to come for the incoming governor, lieutenant governor now, Kathy Hochul.

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