OPINION - Citizen policing has transformed America, so why can't it happen in London?

For many, the Guardian Angels probably seem mythological rather than historical, and even though they still exist (in a much-abbreviated form), they seem like a part of New York’s past.

Founded in 1979 as a civilian -watch organisation, the Angels soon became iconic, swarming around Manhattan in their red berets, red jackets, or white T-shirts with the red Guardian Angels logo of an eye inside a pyramid on a winged shield… operating like benign vigilantes. The very