Since the day he took office, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has faced calls demanding that he do something about the homelessness crisis in Gotham. That should have been expected since he promised to address the issue while on the campaign trail. His early efforts largely involved putting more police in the subway stations and around the city’s parks, but those moves sparked protests from civil rights advocates who talked about “abuse” of the homeless and claims that he was trying to “hide the problem rather than solve it.” Now the Mayor has announced a new initiative to deal with the intractable problem of homeless people who are clearly mentally ill. Adams is instructing the police to detain mentally ill homeless people and take them to medical facilities for treatment even if they object to being treated. This plan appears to have even more people up in arms. (Associated Press)Read More
NYC proposes forced treatment of mentally ill
