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'It's a hot mess': NYPD was 'blindsided' by NYC Mayor Eric Adams' decision to involuntarily commit mentally ill homeless people and claims City Hall 'jumped the gun'
2022-12-02
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 80:20 Rule for crime — or is it 90:10? At any rate, if they really do start taking people off the street, it’ll quickly make a difference. Assuming the city has somewhere to keep them, that is.. But it isn’t nice to surprise street cops like that...
  • The NYPD was 'blindsided' by Mayor Eric Adams' new mental health plan to involuntarily commit mentally ill homeless people, a source said

  • Adams, 62, announced his New Pathway plan on Tuesday at City Hall to the shock of the NYPD, who sources say didn't know about the announcement

  • 'Like everything else, it gets dumped in our lap and we’re expected to solve the problem without any guidance,' the source said

  • However, City Hall insisted the NYPD has known about this initiative for 'months'

  • The NYPD later said: 'Every city agency received this directive yesterday, however, we have been working with the mayor’s office for months...'

  • The plan will allow the NYPD and FDNY to forcibly hospitalize the mentally ill who refuse treatment, even if they are not presenting a threat to the public
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  'Like everything else, it gets dumped in our lap and we’re expected to solve the problem without any guidance,' the source said

Ha! You are expected to take the blame for the unsafe streets and subways. It isn't Adams' fault for letting loose Arkham, its the PD and FD's fault for not putting them back. See, New York has a Brand...and you've been branded.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-12-02 17:38  

#5  Trudeau went further back in history for his plan. He is taking care of the mentally ill on the cheap.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-02 15:43  

#4  Doesn't matter anymore who caused problem. Stop pointing fingers and fix it. Whatever policies resulted in homeless freaks urinating, defecating and sleeping on city streets has long since proven to be a failure. Politicians have had quite enough time to recognize the failure and reverse course. Too bad if NYPD has to enforce this mandate but it's about damn time somebody did.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-12-02 12:56  

#3  The deinstitutionalization of the violently mentally ill was a Teddy Kennedy project.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-02 07:31  

#2  Some try to blame this on Reagan, but remember the 96th US Congress, controlled by a Democratic Senate Majority & a Democratic House Majority, pass the deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill act.

Now 40 years later they are whining about what the results are.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-02 07:29  

#1  This was all caused by the ACLU back in the 70s and 80s when they sued over and over to allow mentally ill to sit in the sewer grate and throw their feces at passers-by.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Patricia_Brown

"Joyce Patricia Brown (perhaps better known as Billie Boggs) was a homeless person who defeated New York City's efforts to force her into a psychiatric treatment program. Her case set legal precedents for forced psychiatric care which have hamstrung involuntary psychiatric commitments of the homeless in New York and elsewhere.

Robert Levy, a staff attorney from the New York Civil Liberties Union (a state ACLU branch), defended her in court. On January 15, 1988, State Supreme Court Justice Irving Kirshenbaum ruled that New York City could not forcibly medicate Brown. Shortly thereafter, Acting State Supreme Court Justice Robert Lippmann ordered her released, in part because although she was mentally ill, her behavior was not obviously and immediately dangerous to anyone. She was released in late January after about eleven weeks of involuntary commitment and returned to the streets."
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811   2022-12-02 05:43  

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