EDITORIAL: Sanity on insanity: Pardon this interruption to Mayor de Blasio and Chirlane McCray's national conference on mental health
The New York Daily NewsNov 18, 2019
The initiative has mainly raised awareness and connected New Yorkers with not-especially-serious diagnoses with counseling. That's not nothing, but it's not worth a
What would be a more worthwhile investment is effectively aiming cash, medication and professional psychiatric services at New Yorkers who wrestle with destabilizing and debilitating mental illness, especially the very few who are dangers to themselves or others.
To get from here to there, McCray and de Blasio must do less lecturing and more listening.
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It's now been 37 days since, in the wake of the murder of four homeless men by a mentally disturbed homeless man, de Blasio ordered a 30-day review of intervention programs including Kendra's Law. Are reforms forthcoming?
His conference will feature plenty of self-congratulation. How about self-scrutiny?
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