Eric Adams - back to sanity

[anonymoose]

New York City mayor Eric Adams announced a controversial new plan last week to address what he calls a mental health "crisis" in the city. The directive instructs police and first responders to remove people displaying severe symptoms of mental illness from the city's subways and streets and take them to area hospitals even if against their will.
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat...s-156151877809

Best policy since Giulliani’s broken windows.

[anonymoose]

A hard look at New York’s controversial new approach to the homeless
CNN
—
New York City Mayor Eric Adams gave the city’s first responders, including its police force, a controversial new task this week – to enforce a state law that allows them to involuntarily commit people experiencing a mental health crisis.

From CNN’s report by Mark Morales:

Adams said it was a myth that first responders can only involuntarily commit those who displayed an “overt act” that they may be suicidal, violent or a danger to others. Instead, he said the law allowed first responders to involuntarily commit those who cannot meet their own “basic human needs” – a lower bar.

The police department is still formulating a plan and Adams, a former cop, said officers will get additional training and real-time support from mental health professionals.

The move follows a raft of violence in New York City and also increasingly visible homeless encampments in New York and cities around the country.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/polit...ers/index.html

[anonymoose]

Betcha it reduces NYC’s violent crime problem.
Of course the far left CNN and PMSNBC are against it.
At least give it a chance.

[Nordberg]

Reagan shut down the mental hospitals letting the inmates loose on the streets. There was a time when you could take someone in trouble to be seen and helped.

[ExpressLane]

Reagan shut down the mental hospitals letting the inmates loose on the streets. There was a time when you could take someone in trouble to be seen and helped.

Actually a federal judge ruled it was illegal to detain someone against their will when the had done nothing illegal.

[AProudLefty]

New York City mayor Eric Adams announced a controversial new plan last week to address what he calls a mental health "crisis" in the city. The directive instructs police and first responders to remove people displaying severe symptoms of mental illness from the city's subways and streets and take them to area hospitals even if against their will.
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat...s-156151877809

Best policy since Giulliani’s broken windows.

Great news for you!!!!

[AProudLefty]

Betcha it reduces NYC’s violent crime problem.
Of course the far left CNN and PMSNBC are against it.
At least give it a chance.

Yep a MAGA dummy.

[anonymoose]

Yep a MAGA dummy.

Eric Adams?

[ExpressLane]

It needs to be done but I suspect it won't be legal to do it.

[AProudLefty]

Eric Adams?

Yes but I was talking about you.

[AProudLefty]

It needs to be done but I suspect it won't be legal to do it.

It isn't. It'll blow up in their faces.

[McRocket]

Utter bullshit and INCREDIBLY stupid.

Now the homeless can just fake 'mental illness' symptom's so that they can get a warm bed and free meals. Whilst causing huge, over crowding/bed shortfalls in hospitals.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg that is wrong with this imbecilic idea.

Hey Adams? You dumbass loser?
Just build and fund shelters for the 60,000 homeless New Yorkers.
https://www.coalitionforthehomeless....new-york-city/
It will end homelessness and cost a tiny fraction of the money it will cost to house these vagrants in hospitals.


The most idiotic, political idea I have heard of in some time.

[anonymoose]

KOMO in Seattle had a great documentary with real solutions.

[AProudLefty]

Utter bullshit and INCREDIBLY stupid.

Now the homeless can just fake 'mental illness' symptom's so that they can get a warm bed and free meals. Whilst causing huge, over crowding/bed shortfalls in hospitals.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg that is wrong with this imbecilic idea.

Hey Adams? You dumbass loser?
Just build and fund shelters for the 60,000 homeless New Yorkers.
https://www.coalitionforthehomeless....new-york-city/
It will end homelessness and cost a tiny fraction of the money it will cost to house these vagrants in hospitals.


The most idiotic, political idea I have heard of in some time.

Yep. He's a lifelong Republican. What do you expect?

[cancel2 2022]

Reagan shut down the mental hospitals letting the inmates loose on the streets. There was a time when you could take someone in trouble to be seen and helped.

More bullshit from Nutberg, it's never ending.

Reagan did it" is the TDS of the 1980s, but a persistent myth is that Reagan emptied the mental institutions and shut them down, and that's why we have a homelessness problems that California (or nationally) today. Like most things the left believes, it's utter bullshit. The facts are:

In the late 50s, warehousing of people in institutions had gone too far, and media exposés on bad conditions had people eliminating federal and state institutions over the failure of state psych wards and the freeing of patients. (They thought the communities would do better). It was national phenomenon, not a state one.

Movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (based on a book from 1962) or Clockwork Orange (based on a book from 1962) were examples of the propaganda against mental institutions of the time: consider it a consequence of the rise of the hippie baby boomers, and backlash against “the man”. Sex, drugs, and stop being so judgmental against the mentally ill... it was another failure of progressivism.

By the time Reagan took office (1966), the housed population had already halved over his predecessor under Pat Brown (D), and the momentum was already in motion, he didn't increase the trend at all (the policies continued), and it continued under Jerry Brown (D) at the same rate (after him). And it was happening nationally at a higher rate.

Since the Democrats/left refuse to take responsibility for anything, they point fingers at someone who did less than they did, forgive both the Browns, and ignore that they've controlled all the houses in California for nearly 50 years since then, and did nothing to fix it.
The problems had gotten better through the 80's, 90's and 2000's and only crashed after Barack Obama and 2008+. Those that claim it's all the Republicans fault are either fools, dishonest partisans, or both.

Blaming a politician that has been out of office for 30+ years, when the Democrats controlled all 3 houses at least once, and did nothing to fix it is chickenshit at the federal level. More so at the California State level, where they have virtually controlled all 3 houses (often with super-majorities) for the last 50 years. Those that claim it's all one Republicans fault, because of votes that were widely supported or championed by the left (and they voted for), are either fools, dishonest partisans, or both. Anyone that repeats that can be discounted as not informed or honest enough to have adult discourse with.

https://igeek.com/Reagan_emptied_men...omeless_crisis