Posted on 12/13/2024 4:25:55 AM PST by george76
It was a walk on the wild side.
Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD brass got a firsthand look at the desolate homeless wasteland inside the Big Apple subway system in an eye-opening overnight tour of the city’s transit vagrant crisis.
With The Post tagging along, the mayor and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch joined a crew from a city multi-agency outreach effort at the 34th Street/Herald Square station, with staffers coming upon a total of 96 troubled drifters — many of them struggling with mental health issues.
But the late-night outreach teams face an uphill battle — only 16 of the vagrants offered help accepted it, including a shoeless man taken to a shelter and a woman who was hospitalized.
Most, however, shunned the helping hand.
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as state lawmakers weigh passage of the Supportive Interventions Act, which specifies that a person in need of medical or psychiatric care can be forcibly removed from the streets.
Adams launched a “tough love” initiative in 2022 that authorized cops to take troubled vagrants against their will if they were in need of assistance — and touted the results late last year.
Yet it is unclear how strongly City Hall enforced the initiative, which presents a potential dilemma for cops who could be accused of excessive force for simply enforcing the mayor’s instructions — while this week’s walk-along at Herald Square suggests the initiative has fallen short.
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“We did a disservice years ago when we closed our psychiatric wards,” Adams said. “We have excellent homeless outreach, and if we don’t address this it’s going to elevate and it’s just going to get worse.
“In a minute this could turn violent,” he added.
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Jessica Tisch is INCOMPETENT!!
> “We did a disservice years ago when we closed our psychiatric wards,” Adams said. <
Adams is starting to behave a lot like Bill Maher. Bill Maher - a stinky liberal who occasionally says something both wise and important.
We did a disservice years ago when we closed our psychiatric wards.
A product of elitist liberals DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST, MAKING THEMSELVES FEEL GOOD and thats it
Adams is starting to make sense. Look for him to get a lefty primary challenger in his next primary, who will then win through election rigging.
What about convictions? What about sentences?
Why am I thinking of the scenes in the film ‘Ghost’ where dead people ride the subways and break open cigarette machines?
ACLU closed psychiatric wards.
Emptying of mental Hospitals caused homelessness
Mayor Adams does not feel safe riding NYC’s subways ..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4031124/posts
“”””Emptying of mental Hospitals caused homelessness””””
That was the last bill JFK signed into law before he was killed.
Just as JFK unionized federal workers he also wanted to federalize mental health.
Excerpts
“President John F. Kennedy signed legislation creating a federally funded Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) program. The legislation and subsequent additions authorized the use of federal funds to construct and staff CMHCs to “provide comprehensive mental health services” to local communities. Kennedy had high hopes for the program, claiming that it would replace “the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions.”
The CMHC legislation was a major departure from existing federal and state responsibilities. For 150 years, the care of mentally ill persons had been vested in the states; a few states, such as Iowa and Wisconsin, passed the responsibility on to the counties.
In 1963, federal funds contributed approximately 2 percent of the costs of services for mentally ill persons; today federal funds contribute over 75 percent of those costs.
The saddest part of JFK’s legacy is that we now have much better treatment and rehabilitation programs than we had in 1963, but they are unused for the majority of the sickest individuals. Reversing JFK’s shift toward federalization and holding states accountable is, ironically, our best hope for fulfilling his original dream.”
Adams seems to be a ray of hope.
Adams appointed her on Nov 24th, 2024...
To have to contemplate, acknowledge, or worse yet, admit that Adams is an improvement over De Blasio, is painful, sad, and also true.
I blame Geraldo Rivera’s hysterical investigative reporting on Willowbrook in 1972 for starting this whole national deinitialization mess. The public outcry following the broadcast led to increased scrutiny of similar facilities across the country and ultimately contributed to the deinstitutionalization movement. Hindsight now suggests the whole movement driven by the media was emotion filled and thoughtless
Token Adams is terming out as Mayor and is looking for a job afterwards, paid to pander to suckers who lie to themselves that he's not part of the problem.
Loved his comment about children making decisions about their identity.
"When I was seven I wanted to be a pirate. So glad my parents did not poke my eye out of chop off a leg"
Jessica Tisch is more interested in being seen as a Homeless aqdvocate than she is as the top crime fighter.
“She” is the problem with New York law enforcement
I'm sure all the senior police officers who were passed over (to put her in the top slot) were ticked. (I wonder what her real skills are?)
Then, when they leave school and have had no prep for dealing with life, given their lack of capacity.... they turn into Mr. Neely
I found that water is wet
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