{"id":179571,"date":"2021-02-16T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nycs-real-homeless-problem-is-its-mad-political-pieties\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T00:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:30:17","slug":"nycs-real-homeless-problem-is-its-mad-political-pieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nycs-real-homeless-problem-is-its-mad-political-pieties\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC\u2019s real homeless problem is its mad political pieties"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC\u2019s real homeless problem is its mad political pieties<\/strong>”
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Will the murder spree of the homeless, allegedly by another mentally ill homeless man, finally bring the city to its senses, and move it to start protecting the public and get horribly dysfunctional people the help they need? <\/p>\n

Rigoberto Lopez, 21,\u00a0is being held without bail, accused as the \u201cA-train ripper\u201d who killed two and slashed another pair of innocents. Yet he was free to begin his horrific spree Friday morning despite previous hospitalizations for mental-health issues and arrests for allegedly attacking a cop and his own dad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is not (just) New York\u2019s \u201cno-bail\u201d obsession with not jailing dangerous suspects. It is the de Blasio-era refusal to use \u201ctough love\u201d on the homeless to get them the treatment they need, and to keep even dangerous individuals out of public areas.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re reminded that the mayor in December launched yet another expansion of his laughable ThriveNYC mental-health initiative . . . to focus on the needs of schoolchildren, not on the city population that\u2019s suffering the worst mental challenges amid the pandemic. Thrive\u2019s spending goes overwhelmingly to help those who need it least.<\/p>\n

Consider, too, that the MTA just days before felt compelled to delete a tweet that admitted it removed benches from a West 23rd Street F\/M station to \u201cprevent the homeless from sleeping on them.\u201d Such was the outcry over the \u201ccruel\u201d practice that MTA Chairman Pat Foye fibbed to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), saying the homeless weren\u2019t the reason for the removal: It was just for cleaning. <\/p>\n

In fact, as MTA Transit President Sarah Feinberg admitted, the MTA has <\/em>removed benches in the past as a \u201clast resort\u201d to do something about \u201cencampment issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

The real cruelty, of course, is the city policy that lets the homeless and seriously mentally ill go untreated to roam the subways until they hurt others \u2014 or themselves. There\u2019s nothing compassionate about that.<\/p>\n

So absurd are the pieties that Gov. Andrew Cuomo last summer had to shut down the subways in the wee hours \u201cfor cleaning\u201d to give the MTA any chance of checking the mass colonization of the subways by the homeless. All the bigshots pretend otherwise, but everybody knows.<\/p>\n

The latest horror, and the furious complaints from MTA workers, will likely get more cops into the subways. But they\u2019ll only be able to do so much as long as the city\u2019s demented political culture prevents them from upholding any of the standards necessary to protect public spaces for the public, and refuses to focus Gotham\u2019s vast mental-health bureaucracy on treating those with serious mental issues.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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