I'm sorry but putting the blame on people who didn't or couldn't get enough education or help is not very Christ-like
see Portugal for example, they decriminalized all d**** but they are offering a lot of mental health and detox help provided by the government
do they have these issues? no

Ethics and everything aside, this is just dumb because they won’t meet criteria to be inpatient, and thus either won’t be admitted to the hospital, or will be very expensive for the city to hospitalize them

la needs to follow suit

best post

The Knicks are f***ed!

symptom of collapse

all cause of capitalism.

like it's so many better ways to address this issue that niggas are just not gonna do cause of moneys lmao

Mayor Mixxyy

We do need it. I have a cousin that is mentally ill so I vote for this.

I don't trust the government to put any money into what actually needs focus, tbh. As a person who works in the mental health field & worked in psychiatric hospitals... pay is complete s***.. there aren't enough beds.. there aren't enough staff... and the only concern of these hospitals is to discharge them within a specific timeframe with a med prescription. It's like a revolving door. I bet most of these people they plan to involuntarily commit already been through the trash system.

Yeah that’s exactly what I’m saying. Hospitals aren’t just hotels to stuff all the homeless people in. Idk how the system in NY works, but in Pennsylvania where I am, if a person were to be 302ed (involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric ward) then there needs to be valid reason (e.g., they pose a threat to themselves or others). And this would be up to the admitting physician, not the government

At least we got a democrat elected guys !

Obviously i dont like being around obviously idk tweaked out or mentally ill homeless people, but they are still people

What i got from the axios article on this:
-they will be released from hospitals once a plan for “ongoing care” is in place. That sounds ok at face value but what does that actually mean? Is that forcibly committing them somewhere where they cannot leave? Is that just telling them to show up for therapy a few times a week?
-police will be trained on “compassionate care”—how much training? One 15 min sesh isnt enough. Who can guarantee a sandra bland situation will not happen?

I feel rly weird about some “out of sight out of mind” way to deal w homelessness
… And i know this is specifically for “mentally ill” homeless people, but how do we trust the police to have the appropriate mental health training to make that determination

And ofc forcing someone somewhere against their will can be very traumatic when they have not done anything
It may just exacerbate the situation for many people. Like you can have trainings, but unless someone says “ok ok yeah ill come with you to some random location even though all my stuffs here and im literally doing nothing” what will happen is youll need to force them down, handcuff them, and move them.

Idk
I feel funny about this but it is a very tough issue to tackle

I just can't help but think a solution to the homeless issue in NYC is to provide more available housing and better shelters with wellness services. Instead of like...putting up more "modern luxury" apartment buildings in low income neighborhoods that are about 80% empty because people can't even afford the rent.

Ion know nigga I'm only from the city and have witnessed that forced hospitalization of homeless people hasn't worked every year they have attempted it. Maybe they might finally be onto something this time around...

Good

"On going care" in reality is just giving them a case manager in the hopes that they follow through with whatever treatment options given.

A lot of these guys are outside visibly tweaking

You’re right. I meant hospital care

In theory this a great idea

In reality this not a good idea

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Thanks Democrats!