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Citing Safety, New York Moves Mentally Ill People Out of the Subway

• rawgabbit 2y ago
  > Launched last fall, the program, called Subway Co-Response Outreach, or SCOUT, has removed at least 113 people from the subway.
• para_parolu 2y ago
  So they removed them and put where?
  • codingdave 2y ago
    Hospitals and shelters. Mostly voluntary moves, 18% involuntary: https://new.mta.info/document/135741 https://new.mta.info/document/135741
  • h2odragon 2y ago
    > Medical workers and police officers are removing people suffering from psychiatric distress. The most troubled are forced to the hospital.