It happens far too often - the vicious fatal stabbing of a veteran FDNY Lieutenant and the severe beating of a woman inside a subway station. The victims did not know their aggressors, who both experienced mental health episodes.
"Many of these folks we see have hospital bands, we know they've been in the system, right and they come back out - that's the problem," said Adams."There's a small number that, if they don't receive the care they need then it's a very violent encounter, and that's what we're seeing," said Adams.
Mayor Adams admits the system has been failing for some time - a person has an episode, some receive medication and then are released. A better solution, Adams says is the so-called 'clubhouse model' - a multi-pronged approach that goes way beyond just policing. "Our goal now is to build that social net infrastructure - we have to catch people before they carry out the attacks and we have not been doing that," Adams said."You're in the hospital with me, know you have violent tendencies, schizophrenia, or some other issue, and I need to hand you off to someone - not hand you back into the streets," he adds."The situation is not going to get better, you need to do something, you need to change something," Adams said.
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