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Though it's true many homeless people have mental illness bad enough to be institutionalized, this is a very bad plan. Not only will it crush the local hospitals, but his democrat friends made it nearly impossible to keep people for mental reasons and many of the state hospitals were shut down. They'll just overwhelm the hospitals then be back on the street. Also, it doesn't fix the crime problem. If he wants to do that he needs to tell his ADA friends to prosecute people and tell his governor to stop letting criminals out of jail.
Not all homeless are pushing people onto train tracks, doing drugs or assaulting people. Some it's a money issue others they've simply given up.
Just as with drugs many with an issue won't get better or change their ways until they want to. They can be told how to get better or be given help but until they use any assistance as a tool to change they won't. They'll put on a show for the shrinks, police and judges and once out they'll be doing the same thing again.
Now if a suspect is considered mentally ill then consider committing them but to just pluck a person deemed to be mentally ill(by whom?) is not right or the solution to crime in NYC
He thinks if they all become "mental illness cases" that will clean up the streets.
He's not wrong, call them mental and lock them in a room
Of course the ACLU and all these other chaos-agents are going to get an immediate court injunction and not a single person will be kept inside, including legitimately crazy people
Wow let's use up ER space. I can't think of anything more ideal and financially feasible. This will get expensive fast not even to mention that now people needing the ER will have to wait where the homeless used to be. Find a pleasant patch outside of town. Let them make their shelters and give them some plywood and concrete blocks, basic food. Give out drugs as a reward for doing something in their new settlement. Today we dig a latrine. When the latrine hole is finished we can have some smack. Get some half functioning addict to run it.
If you come into the city with drugs you go to jail. Adams is truly a mental midget.
Not all homeless are pushing people onto train tracks, doing drugs or assaulting people. Some it's a money issue others they've simply given up.
Just as with drugs many with an issue won't get better or change their ways until they want to. They can be told how to get better or be given help but until they use any assistance as a tool to change they won't. They'll put on a show for the shrinks, police and judges and once out they'll be doing the same thing again.
Now if a suspect is considered mentally ill then consider committing them but to just pluck a person deemed to be mentally ill(by whom?) is not right or the solution to crime in NYC
As someone who worked for years in NYC, you can easily tell.
My spouse worked in psych emergency in California. she concurs a stupid idea.
The cops will drop off the homeless person to the ER, a psychiatrist will give a quick eval and back out the door they will go.
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