Posted on 12/30/2012 3:37:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The city streets are teeming with thousands of mentally ill homeless people capable of psychotic acts of random violence if left untreated, experts warned yesterday.
As many as 11,000 of the city’s 33,000 homeless adults have some form of mental illness, said D.J. Jaffe, executive director of the Mental Illness Policy Organization.
Of that number, about 3,300 are potentially violent, Jaffe said.
“When untreated, they’re capable of horrific acts,” said Jaffe. “The danger is that they’re so sick that they don’t know they’re sick, and their brain is incapable of regulating their own behavior.”
He urged New Yorkers to be especially wary of people screaming at voices only they can hear, wearing tons of clothes in the summer or eating out of trash cans.
“But if you’re walking down the street, you know who’s mentally ill — it doesn’t take a nuclear scientist.”
Jaffe said steps must be taken to strengthen Kendra’s Law — a loophole-ridden 1999 measure intended to allow courts to forcibly treat the dangerously unhinged.
“We want mandatory evaluations of all mentally ill who are being released from jails, prisons or involuntary hospitalizations,” he said.
Even Andrew Goldstein, the schizophrenic man who shoved Kendra Webdale to her death in front of a train in 1999, is calling for tougher laws — to keep nuts like himself off the street.
“There should be stricter regulations,” he told The Post in his first-ever jailhouse interview.
The city’s Department of Homeless Services disputed Jaffe’s figures but characterized the number of mentally ill homeless who do not use its shelter system as “significant.”
“If people feel that there is someone in the street that’s dangerous, they need to call 911,” said spokeswoman Barbara Brancaccio.
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One of them moved outside of an apartment near me two weeks ago.
It’s possible to be too tolerant.
Beautiful Hunterdon County NJ
Well, you aren’t far from NYC after all.
Just far enough not to be affected by the crowd and the hustle and bustle, but close enough to drive to once in a while.
#34: The movie about “10,000 Maniacs” was actually a documentary about the 2000 Democratic Party convention”.
A sequel called “20,000 Maniacs” was planned for the 2004 DP Convention but some delegates ate the producer and film crew so it was cancelled.
By the time 2008 came around, there was no need for another movie of any title with the word “Maniac” in it. Sane people knew and voted for McCain. The Zombies, unwashed and greatly uninformed voted for the Maniacs and got them
2012 just proved you didn’t need another sequel to know that the Maniacs still ran the country.
2016 might have a movie entitled “Zombieland 2016: A new beginning”. Or it might not if the zombies still rule.
Doesn't that describe the average Obamaton? NYC has millions of those types.
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