This is just an ad for a political policy that doesn't address any of the problems, would not have helped the author's friend, and if it were the only policy en

This is just an ad for a political policy that doesn't address any of the problems, would not have helped the author's friend, and if it were the only policy enacted might not have saved the murder victim's life. Adams's proposal to involuntarily hospitalize people did nothing to address these problems that don't only affect New York City's chronically homeless: - Hospital staffing or capacity for triaging, assessing, treating, and making committal decisions on chronically mentally ill patients; police can't directly involuntarily commit people, a doctor has to do it[1] - Lack of training for first responders, and especially police, to compassionately handle people suffering from acute mental illness; his proposal added a video call hotline. It also leans on NYPD's existing specialized training section, which is only a four-day program, has a stated primary goal of handcuffing the person, and hasn't stopped police from following protocol instead of killing mentally ill people.[2] It also was apparently announced without any coordination with NYPD, who by their own admission found out about the new policy only when Adams publicly announced it.[2][3] NYPD in turn started implementing the policy without rolling out the training Adams mentioned, and directed officers to its legal team for advice instead of the hotline.[3] - An existing shortage of first responders, much less specially trained responders,[2] much less effectively trained responders.[4] - An existing shortage of in-patient beds and supportive housing, a shortfall that the state government is attempting to address independently of Adams. In-patient psychiatric hospital bed capacity dropped 20 percent from 2014 to 2022 with only 5,000 statewide, which left the handling of mentally ill people in places like NYC to understaffed and undertrained ERs.[5] Adams didn't respond to any of these fundamental shortfalls in his November proposal until three months later, with new proposals that didn't have budgets, didn't propose expanding fundamental mental health care infrastructure, and instead focused on clubhouse models for employing functionally mentally ill people without addressing the acute or chronic mental illness targeted by his involuntary hospitalization proposal. The only part of this new proposal that was even funded at the time it was announced was the other third of it, exclusively focused on substance abuse.[6] 1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/03/13/new-york-mental-illness-homeless/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/03/13/ne... 2: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/nyregion/mental-health-plan-nypd.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/nyregion/mental-health-pl... 3: https://nypost.com/2022/12/08/nypd-moves-ahead-with-eric-adams-new-mental-illness-policy-despite-lack-of-training/ https://nypost.com/2022/12/08/nypd-moves-ahead-with-eric-ada... 4: https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019704823/police-mental-health-crisis-calls-new-york-city https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019704823/police-mental-heal... 5: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/nyregion/hochul-mental-health-plan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/nyregion/hochul-mental-he... 6: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/23/adams-mental-health-agenda-00084085 https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/23/adams-mental-health...