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On this premier, explosive, new episode, we drill vast, deep and wide to bring you the facts, not the fiction. This is another eye-opening episode as we continue with our in-depth analysis focusing on the Police and their contact with the mentally ill.
In September 2022 there were at least 60,252 homeless people, with some 19,310 homeless children, sleeping each night in New York City’s main municipal shelter systems.
Eric Adams, the 110th Mayor of the Capital of The World (New York City), has announced and undertaken some very bold moves to attempt to address a “crisis we see all around us”. His administration announced a major push to “remove people with severe, untreated mental illness from the city’s streets and subways” with a process called Involuntary hospitalization.
The mayor expressed that we have a “moral obligation” to help those that are not in the position to help themselves. This policy will no doubt face strong opposition from civil liberty groups as it will examine what “liberty” and “freedom from “governmental intrusions” are all about.
Does a person lose any of their Constitutional protections simply because they mumble to themselves, have clothes that are soiled, torn and in tatters or haven’t had a shower in months?
Some critics have equated this process with “State sponsored kidnapping”.
While it may sound harsh to some, imagine if you were taken somewhere against your will, how would that make you feel?
The mayor’s announcement comes at a time when there is an intensive national debate about rising crime and the role of the police – especially dealing with those who are already in a delicate, fragile and tenuous mental state to begin with and may be spiraling downward into a deeper mental health crisis.
Join us as we:
● Examine the issues both pro and con, defining the processes that are in play.
● Investigate what other states and cities have done and are attempting to do to daily address this issue and those individuals who lack adequate housing and suffer from some degree of mental illness.
● Provide you with un-cut, exclusive audio of the mayor in his historic speech at City Hall.
● Customarily ask the tough questions that get at the crux of the issue.
● Have our pulse on the city with two other “Light ‘Em Up: Action-Exclusive Reports” from our New York affiliate and social justice correspondents on scene.
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Phil Rizzo
Executive Producer