, a 41-year-old Black man who died in 2020 after being restrained by Rochester, New York police while experiencing a mental health crisis—would create trained response units to deescalate such emergencies instead of armed officers.
Highlighting that many New Yorkers can't access psychiatric treatment even if they are seeking it out, Simone said that"Mayor Adams needs to focus on repairing our broken mental health system and prioritize bringing access to quality voluntary care and affordable, permanent housing with support services to New Yorkers who need it the most."that Adams' new plan may also violate state and federal restrictions on detaining people with mental illness.
"Forcing people into treatment is a failed strategy for connecting people to long-term treatment and care," Lieberman stressed."The decades-old practice of sweeping deep-seated problems out of public view may play well for the politicians, but the problems will persist—for vulnerable people in desperate need of government services and for New Yorkers."
Adams' effort to"police away homelessness and sweep individuals out of sight'' is a page from the failed playbook of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, she added."With no real plan for housing, services, or supports, the administration is choosing handcuffs and coercion."
NYCLU Not this simple.