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-Great Cultural Revolution
The plan to save the NYC subway: 1,000 cops will descend to move homeless into 600 new psychiatric ward places, mayor and governor announce
2022-02-19
  • NYC Mayor Eric Adams has deployed 1,000 cops and 30 teams of health workers to address homelessness and crime in the city's subway

  • The Subway Safety Plan calls on officers to step up enforcement of subway rules and empty trains at the end of the line

  • The officers will be accompanied by health workers who will help the mentally ill and point them to the city's support services

  • The plan also involves an expansion of Kendra's Law, a 1999 statue that allows judges to force outpatient treatment for mentally ill people

  • Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state will provide 1,100 beds for psychiatric and homeless shelter use as part of a $39.5 million statewide initiative

  • The state will also invest $9 million a year to recruit mental health workers
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  Np. Just create another $250 million per year, ThriveNYC-style "mental health" program run by the mayor's family -- aka "a smoke-and-mirrors slush fund."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-19 09:41  

#5  Of course, mental hospitals may acquire new cachet now that "freedom" is a mental health problem.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-19 09:09  

#4  Not long, MM.

Besides, there are too many 'non-profits' that indeed profit greatly from the 'plight exploitation' of the homeless population.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-02-19 08:44  

#3  The return of mental hospitals. How long do you think the ACLU will allow that?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-19 08:28  

#2  Replacing those SIGs and Tasers with Valium dart guns.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-19 08:20  

#1  Turning reals cops into Transit cops?
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-19 08:19  

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