Loading ...New York Mayor’s Plan to Round Up Homeless People Is a Trauma-Inducing Horror
It is a horrific rights violation to give police the power to forcibly hospitalize people for being homeless.
The new mayor of New York City wants to use the police to clear the streets and subways of homeless people and send them straight to hospitals. No mental health teams, no offer of shelter, no medical evaluation to determine whether they pose a threat to anyone — just a bunch of police officers determining if they think someone has the capacity to think clearly. The decision to use police to round up vulnerable individuals and lock them away because they have no home is, quite frankly, a terrifying development.
In other words, the police are being empowered to medically incarcerate unhoused people with virtual impunity.