- Eric Adams has focused much of his efforts on fighting delinquency and crime.
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| New York Mayor Eric Adams during a press conference. |
New York will forcibly hospitalize mentally ill patients considered "dangerous"
The New York authorities have shown their determination to forcibly transfer to psychiatric centers people with "serious mental illnesses" who may pose a danger to others and to themselves or who are unable to provide the basic necessities to survive.
To do this, they have published a circular with the steps that medical personnel, firefighters, and security agents must take when they meet a person who they consider to have these characteristics and who refuses to voluntarily go to a hospital to determine if they need to receive medication. or be admitted.
In New York, "a common misconception persists that we cannot provide forced assistance unless the person is violent, suicidal, or in imminent risk of harm," New York Mayor Eric Adams explained during the announcement of the new campaign.
The mayor insisted that such a belief was a "myth" and added that the city will make every "effort to help those who are mentally ill and whose illness puts them in danger by preventing them from meeting their own basic needs."
Fight crime
With the arrival of winter, many homeless seek refuge in subway stations, where in recent months there have been violent incidents and several murders that have had a great impact on the public and for which many blame the homeless.
Since becoming mayor, Adams has focused much of his efforts on fighting crime and delinquency and on strengthening the role and presence of the police.
The city has already launched several initiatives to try to address the problem of the presence of homeless people with mental illnesses on the streets of the city, such as last May when it began a pilot project to try to put mentally ill people in contact with centers where they could receive care.
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