Mental health and homelessness are major concerns for public safety in New York City. Recently released ... the efficacy of the Mayor's involuntary removal policy giving police the authority ...

New York City leaders are divided over involuntary ... City councilmembers criticized Mayor Eric Adams’ involuntary removal initiative, where people experiencing mental health crises are taken ...

By that definition, New York City and New York state’s approaches ... everyone defaults to the lazy solution of “involuntary commitment,” which has been a failed policy for more than four decades.

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This article originally appeared in The Echo, a student-run publication of the The High School for Math, Science and ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams stated that helping New Yorkers ... The review was critical of the involuntary removal policy that takes citizens to treatment without their consent. The review ...

Amirthalingam testify in New York carefully enumerating how many were killed where ... For instance, the Commissions of Inquiry into the Involuntary Removal or Disappearance of Persons, known locally ...

Mayor Adams on Monday defended involuntary removals of mentally ill people to hospitals and said his City Council critics need to get out of their “sterilized environment” after a Council ...

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Monday defended involuntary removals of mentally ill people to hospitals and said his City Council critics need to get out of their “sterilized environment ...