We have previously praised New York City Mayor Eric Adams for some of the things that he talked about going into the office.

And now he faces a very thorny issue that we're going to dig into in this episode of Right Angle.

Gentlemen, Eric Adams recently put out a directive that said that police and other city workers were going to start removing mentally ill homeless

people who are in a psychiatric crisis, not necessarily a danger to other people, but perhaps

a danger to themselves, remove them from the streets and get them into hospitals basically

for their own good. Adams has previously described mentally ill homeless people as one of the causes of the rise of recent subway crimes.

And so now this directive comes down.

It's going to take months to implement because they really don't have the resources in place to do what they're talking about. But the reason I bring it up, guys, is because this is one of those

situations where there are so many complicating factors that one wonders whether this is just

a condition of life and there's nothing we can do about it or that smart people somewhere,

whether in government or elsewhere, might be able to coordinate their efforts and actually

accomplish something. There have been a lot of arrests in the subway as New York tries to

deal with this problem. They have, I'm trying to

find the, oh, there's a crime. If you're on a subway train, there's a crime called being

overstretched. And it basically means you're taking up more than one seat, which probably

means you're a homeless guy sleeping on the bench in the subway or across some chairs in the subway. And so there have been

something like 470 arrests this year for people who were being overstretched. There's an estimated

60,000 people in the municipal shelter system, 19,310 of those, apparently children. There may have been in this past January some 3,400

people just out on the streets without any kind of shelter. And January in New York is, to say the

least, no fun. In any case, some of the complications that I picked up, just reading a couple of stories at NPR and the New York Times and some other places, number one, police should not be evaluating mentally mental health conditions.

Number two, there are in many cases these mental health patients or mental health people or mentally disabled

people, whatever you want to call them, are already known to some providers in various ways.

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