NYC hotline to advise police on Adams' plan to involuntarily hospitalize homeless has gotten zero calls
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A hotline set up to advise NYC police officers on Mayor Eric Adams' directive to hospitalize severely mentally ill homeless people has gotten no calls.
Adams, a Democrat, first announced his plan to "provide care for individuals suffering from untreated severe mental illness across NYC" in November. Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
According to the mayor's office, the directive, which falls in line with state law and court precedent, "clarifies that outreach workers, city-operated hospitals, and first responders have the legal authority to provide care to New Yorkers when severe mental illness prevents them from meeting their own basic human needs to the extent that they are a danger to themselves."
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