Brian Mayer on WNYC. It's been a year this week since Mayor Eric Adams

unveiled this controversial plan to involuntarily

hospitalized some people experiencing severe mental illness

on the streets of New York City.

Under this initiative, first responders, including the NYPD, are tasked with assessing

if an individual can quote, meet their basic needs, un if not they might be transported to a hospital

regardless of whether or not they want help the goal of the administration was

to meet the needs of our expanding unhoused population, those like Jordan Neely,

the 30-year-old black man who was killed in a chokehold by a fellow subway rider during what appeared too many to be a mental health crisis.

More often than not, people in situations like Neely's don't receive attention until they

are harmed or they've caused harm.

In this vein, the goal was also to help New Yorkers

feel safer by lessening encounters

with those who are clearly suffering

and potentially volatile.

So let's look at the results of this policy over year one and revisit some of the questions

around it from when it was announced.

Has the mayor met his goals?

Have the concerns brought up by opponents of the plan come to unfortunate fruition?

Joining us now, to recap the first year of involuntary hospitalizations,

is Maya Kaufman, health care reporter for

political. Mya, thanks for coming on WNYC today. Hi.

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