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mowotlarx t1_iyhv0w2 wrote

Reply to comment by SuperTeamRyan in New York’s Plan to Address Crisis of Mentally Ill Faces High Hurdles by CactusBoyScout

>I don't have the numbers

This is a city of nearly 9 million people and you think only 350 homeless mentally ill people sounds right?

We have zero beds available even for that wildly small number. We don't have beds for housed mentally ill people. This will be a massive crisis in hospitals the day they begin to try to enforce false imprisonment in hospitals.

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SuperTeamRyan t1_iyhyiwp wrote

I'm not saying that I'm saying a small number of mentally unwell people cause most of the visible problems that affect quality of life. There were 60000 homeless in NYC of that about 2k were street homeless and not housed in the shelter system. Even if we assume all 2k of the street homeless are dangerous insane and violent getting even 350 of the worst offenders off the street would drastically improve the quality of life for most new yorkers.

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