Hey everyone, Artie here just to introduce today's show. The episode you're about to hear

is our conversation from January on New York Mayor Eric Adams' recent push to expand the

practice of having people involuntarily committed, all the while expanding policing powers

and police discretion over who gets committed and why. This was originally a patron episode, but we wanted to make sure it was available to

everyone for a simple reason, which is this didn't simply pop up and then go away, even

though most of the coverage of it has.

In February, a U.S. District judge ruled that Adam's plan can go forward, and so it has. There are legal

challenges to this. Just last week, a group of New York advocacy organizations filed an amended

complaint against the new policies, so there is still a legal challenge ongoing. But more than that,

as we've just seen this week, for instance, Adams was forced to back off from cutting funding

to the New York Public Library system, for now at least, when faced with enough public outrage.

So if the things we describe in this episode piss you off, it's not too late to try to make

Adam's answer for how blatantly evil this is.

One last thing, and then on to the episode.

We've had a decent amount of unlocks in the main feed recently.

That usually isn't the norm, but we typically use these unlocks to cover for when B loses a couple of days to treatment, and there have been a lot of those days recently.

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get you access to episodes like the one I'm introducing. It also makes the show itself happen,

including the free ones. Anyway, that's all for me. Buck Eric Adams. Hope you enjoy. Welcome to the death panel.

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