{"id":12460,"date":"2020-06-22T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cant-replace-policing-with-social-services-that-dont-do-what-theyre-supposed-to\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:12:00","slug":"cant-replace-policing-with-social-services-that-dont-do-what-theyre-supposed-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cant-replace-policing-with-social-services-that-dont-do-what-theyre-supposed-to\/","title":{"rendered":"#Can\u2019t replace policing with social services that don\u2019t do what they\u2019re supposed to"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Can\u2019t replace policing with social<\/a> services that don\u2019t do what they\u2019re supposed to<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 21, 2020 |<\/span> 6:12pm |<\/span> Updated June 21, 2020 | 6:47pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n Black Lives Matter and other activists are calling on cities across the nation to #DefundthePolice. So what would they have us replace law enforcement with? Many are calling for diverting resources from police to social-service systems, including mental-health care.<\/p>\n

The problem is that these arguments studiously ignore the dysfunctional state of the systems we have. Indeed, it\u2019s because of chronic policy failure in areas such as mental health that the police and other public-safety agencies so often find themselves dealing with problems that shouldn\u2019t be their responsibility.<\/p>\n

Consider the case of Rashid Brimmage, a 31-year-old homeless New Yorker with a serious mental illness, who has been \u00adarrested a whopping 103 times over the last 15 years.<\/p>\n

This month, he allegedly shoved to the ground a 92-year-old woman near the corner of Third Avenue and East 16th Street in Manhattan. Surveillance video of the incident shows her striking her head against a fire hydrant and Brimmage proceeding along without even breaking his stride. The alleged assault was random and completely unprovoked.<\/p>\n

Would more spending on mental health have kept Brimmage out of jail and his victim from having been put \u201cin a state where [she\u2019s] fearful to walk the streets alone,\u201d as The Post has reported?<\/p>\n

Probably not. We know this, because we tried it, via Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s high-profile ThriveNYC initiative and other equally expensive and misbegotten programs in the Big App<\/a>le.<\/p>\n

If states and cities are \u201claboratories of democracy,\u201d New York should be seen as an experiment in whether vast spending on social services fixes social problems. The budgets of Gotham\u2019s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the New York state Office of Mental Health are the envy of social workers in poorer red states. And yet the results are utterly underwhelming.<\/p>\n

Even if they haven\u2019t been assaulted by the mentally ill, many Gothamites have shared subway cars with symptomatic street people and grown inured to headline-grabbing atrocities. Before Brimmage, there was Randy Santos, the perp behind the Chinatown stabbing spree last fall.<\/p>\n

Before Santos, there was David Aleer-Chol, a mentally ill homeless man busted in 2018 for sending a senior citizen to the hospital after assaulting him near Bryant Park with a bike lock. And then there was Marcus Gomez, a resident of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center arrested on charges that he repeatedly stabbed his grandmother\u2019s home-health aide the same year.<\/p>\n

The data back up New Yorkers\u2019 impressions of a broken mental-health system. As of last year, about 17 percent of the city\u2019s jail inmates have a serious mental illness, as do more than 13,000 of the homeless. Both metrics have been on the rise during the ThriveN\u00adYC era.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2015, Hizzoner\u2019s Thrive initiative has faced withering criticism for its lack of accountability and opacity. Its core flaw, though, is its neglect of cases like Brimmage.<\/p>\n

The program dedicates only a token share of its $222 million annual budget to the seriously mentally ill, instead focusing mainly on problems such as mild depression and anxiety. Even after a recent reboot, Thrive is expected to dedicate about a quarter of its budget to serious mental illness.<\/p>\n

Shoveling more money into the mental-health system without addressing its manifold deficiencies amounts to a call for \u201crevenue before reform.\u201d Progressives might as well cut the police budget and send taxpayers a rebate.<\/p>\n

Helping the hardest cases always takes more than money.<\/p>\n

In the case of mental health, the hardest cases are found largely in shelters and jails and on the streets. That\u2019s where we should target our resources, using interventions targeted to the seriously mentally ill. People with mild depression and anxiety don\u2019t need court-ordered treatment programs, such as Kendra\u2019s Law, and inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. But people with schizophrenia sometimes do.<\/p>\n

Advocates believe that strip<\/a>ping funds from the police and transferring them to social services takes an enlightened, \u201cupstream\u201d approach to policymaking. But that same prevention-oriented rationale justified ThriveNYC\u2019s focus on mild mental illness instead of serious mental illness. Far too often, going upstream to prevent social problems isn\u2019t enlightened \u2014 but simply an excuse to dodge responsibility for our most pressing social challenges.<\/p>\n

#DefundthePolice would have us hamstring a vital public service \u2014 only to swell the budgets of failed programs already gorged with taxpayer cash.<\/p>\n

Stephen Eide is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and a City Journal contributing editor.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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