'There’s lots that can go wrong with the mayor’s plan, and plenty of reasons for people who care about the mentally ill and about civil liberties to carefully watch how it proceeds,' writes harrysiegel
what the mayor actually announced was mostly new guidelines, including police consulting with mental health professionals, for an existing approach of bringing people who appear to be severely mentally ill in for brief periods of stabilization and psychiatric evaluations that, by law, can’t last for more than 72 hours.
The idea is to see if people living on the street—without families to support them, who appear to be suffering from schizophrenia or bipolar disorders while being evidently unable to care for themselves, and often unable to recognize their own conditions and thus unwilling to accept medication—get additional help, rather than a revolving door, including through court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment plans.
Popular opinion, of course, isn’t always the same thing as decent policy, and an announcement isn’t the same thing as an accomplishment.
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