Good move from New York City - the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 should never have passed. The activists for the mentally ill have done irreprable harm to these poor people. From the New York Times:
New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentally Ill People From Streets
Acting to address “a crisis we see all around us” toward the end of a year that has seen a string of high-profile crimes involving homeless people, Mayor Eric Adams announced a major push on Tuesday to remove people with severe, untreated mental illness from the city’s streets and subways.
Mr. Adams, who has made clearing homeless encampments a priority since taking office in January, said the effort would require involuntarily hospitalizing people who were a danger to themselves, even if they posed no risk of harm to others, arguing the city had a “moral obligation” to help them.
“The common misunderstanding persists that we cannot provide involuntary assistance unless the person is violent,” Mr. Adams said in an address at City Hall. “Going forward, we will make every effort to assist those who are suffering from mental illness.”
The profoundly mentally ill can not take care of themselves. Society's solution was to institutionalize them. Yes, some institutions were horrid but also, the majority of them were good and staffed with caring people. The ill recieved food and care for their lives. As I said earlier this year (talking about San Francisco)
The mentally ill and adicted need to be institutionalised but nobody has the stones to do it. This all started under President Kennedy's Community Mental Health Act of 1963. Gotten worse since then. I have written about the Community Mental Health Act and its fallout several times before:
Sometimes, the old ways are the best. This whole failure was started by activists. We need to remember this quote:
Activists are just people who have learned how to use the media to their own ends. They are not "more" correct. They are not in the majority. They are not smarter. They are just loud.
Glad to see a return to what works...
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