{"id":327675,"date":"2021-08-19T05:14:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasios-focus-needs-to-shift-to-the-truly-deranged-people\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T05:14:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:14:54","slug":"de-blasios-focus-needs-to-shift-to-the-truly-deranged-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasios-focus-needs-to-shift-to-the-truly-deranged-people\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio\u2019s focus needs to shift to the truly deranged people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#De Blasio\u2019s focus needs to shift to the truly deranged people<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>An innocent New Yorker stands at the ATM of a lower Manhattan bank, minding his own business. Another man enters and, with no prompt or warning, attacks the first with a hatchet, brutally beating him and sending him to the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The footage is shocking, but at the same time unsurprising. It recalls other recent incidents: the woman who almost shoved a man onto the subway tracks at Times Square, or the man who beat an elderly Asian woman in broad daylight in \u00adMidtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are clear commonalities between these attacks: their brutality, that they h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened in broad daylight in parts of the city recently considered safe, and that they clearly involved instances of severe mental illness. Someone who attacks a stranger in broad daylight with an ax cannot possibly be in his right mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The surge in violence by the seriously mentally ill is a major threat to public safety in the city. But the city\u2019s leadership would prefer to focus on mental-health care in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, distracting from the few mentally ill people who are the real cause of public fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/atm-hatchet-attack-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=650\" alt=\"Surveillance footage of Aaron Garcia allegedly attacking a man at a bank with a hatchet in Manhattan.\" class=\"wp-image-19174029\" width=\"303\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/atm-hatchet-attack-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=606 606w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/atm-hatchet-attack-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=454 454w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/atm-hatchet-attack-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=303 303w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/atm-hatchet-attack-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=151 151w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/atm-hatchet-attack-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\"\/><figcaption>Surveillance footage of Aaron Garcia allegedly attacking a man at a bank with a hatchet in Manhattan.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">No Credit<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>This was the main effect of Mayor de Blasio\u2019s ThriveNYC program, which aimed to convince New Yorkers that everyone is at risk for mental illness. That meant scarce resources are spread widely, rather than focused on the most disruptive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More recently, the city has begun a pilot program, B-HEARD, which would send mental-health responders instead of NYPD officers to answer 911 calls. The program has been trumpeted as a success \u2014 based on flawed data analysis \u2014 heralding a near future in which more issues of public safety are treated as problems of \u201cmental health.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a> workers can\u2019t stop the violence; police must do that. But then the city has to be willing to step in with treatment options \u00adinstead of jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Such violent incidents may not be the most common manifestations of mental illness, but they are happening with alarming frequency in the city. And they are what most concerns \u00adeveryday New Yorkers, who want to walk the streets of Manhattan unafraid of madmen attacking them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To deal with the problem, focus less on the mental-health needs of the many, and more on those of the few.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Another man enters and, with no prompt or warning, attacks the first with a hatchet, brutally beating him and sending him to the hospital.\u00a0 The footage is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/bill-de-blasio-6.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[114457,70969,5042,70989,71431,71067],"class_list":["post-327675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-18-21","tag-attacks","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness","tag-thrivenyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}