https://nypost.com/2017/10/27/cuomo-...m-the-streets/
Why did we/he/they not see this coming. Who were paying these politicians to lobby for the decriminalization of everything and why? Who were paying these politicians to shut down all these psych facilities and why?
P.S: Many of the areas that previously housed PSYCH Facilities were promptly sold to property developers for way under their value. Many are now commercial buildings that netted these property developers hundreds of millions of dollars. Maybe we need to investigate the money trail.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/ju...omo-11326.html.
EYE ON THE NEWS
Just Say No, Governor Cuomo
New York State should not close its psychiatric hospitals.
DJ Jaffe
February 13, 2014
Two trade associations representing New York’s community-based mental-health industry—Mental Health America (MHA) and the New York State Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)—are eyeing the money Albany spends on inpatient psychiatric care and lobbying the Cuomo administration to close its state-run psychiatric hospitals.
many previously hospitalized patients will be declared “recovered” and left to fend for themselves.
The community-based mental-health industry’s attempt to shutter state-run psychiatric hospitals comes on the heels of its largely successful campaign to empty adult homes in New York State (adult homes are represented by a different trade association)
"In January, New York governor Andrew Cuomo issued a partial reprieve to three of the nine state psychiatric hospitals he previously slated for closure. But the governor is moving ahead with plans to close other state psychiatric hospitals, which will force hundreds of seriously mentally ill patients into jails, shelters, prisons, and morgues. This will come at a high cost to taxpayers and put the public, the police, and the patients themselves at considerable risk. "