{"id":391130,"date":"2022-01-08T03:28:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/subway-homeless-still-require-tough-love-not-just-support\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T03:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:28:46","slug":"subway-homeless-still-require-tough-love-not-just-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/subway-homeless-still-require-tough-love-not-just-support\/","title":{"rendered":"#Subway homeless still require \u2018tough love\u2019 \u2013 not just \u2018support\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Subway homeless still require \u2018tough love\u2019 \u2013 not just \u2018support\u2019<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams this week announced new homeless outreach <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-work teams \u2014 dubbed Safe Options Support \u2014 to work with the NYPD in city subways. That\u2019s great, but we pray this means tough love, not just \u201csupport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teams of up to 10 social workers will \u201cengage\u201d subway vagrants to talk them off  trains and into shelters. That will free up cops from such social work so they can target criminality and make transit safe for returning commuters.<\/p>\n<p>But, sorry, police still need to be involved to handle those homeless who <em>won\u2019t<\/em> budge, and insist on camping out on trains or in stations. There is no right to use vital public spaces as your living room, bedroom or (especially) toilet. <\/p>\n<p>The idea that carrots alone are sufficient is a fantasy pushed by those who have no clue how the real world works. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority\u2019s multimillion-dollar program to lure the homeless into shelter proved a failure. In a blistering May 2020 report, MTA Inspector <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Carolyn Pokorny called the $5 million-a-year program, plus $2.6 million in overtime, a \u201cvery expensive\u201d and \u201cminimally effective\u201d bust. Its teams of cops and social workers only cleared an average of three homeless a night into shelters, while dozens stayed on the trains.<\/p>\n<p>Only shutting down the subways overnight during the pandemic was able to clear them out, and even \u201ctough guy\u201d Gov. Andrew Cuomo felt obliged to pretend it was about \u201cdeep cleaning,\u201d not forcing the vagrants out.<\/p>\n<p>The nightly closures are gone now, while the homeless are back in full force. The new Hochul-Adams teams won\u2019t be enough.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/12720485a.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speak on policing the subways and homelessness at a press conference in the Fulton Street subway station in New York City on Thursday, January 6, 2022.&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-20759065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/12720485a.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/12720485a.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/12720485a.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/12720485a.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>NYC\u2019s new homeless outreach teams have been dubbed Safe Options Support.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Angelillo\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>State law (which <em>should <\/em>change, though we don\u2019t have high hopes, given the left\u2019s power) may technically prevent police from forcibly removing anyone from the transit system for simple vagrancy, but not for <em>cause.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Between clear threats from mental illness, grossly unsanitary behavior and outright public-nuisance issues, cops have enough freedom to make a difference \u2014 if they know the brass will back them up. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s inhumane to let subways serve as rolling shelters, and New York\u2019s leaders shouldn\u2019t be afraid to say so, and act on that simple truth.\n                        <\/p><\/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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Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams this week announced new homeless outreach social-work teams \u2014 dubbed Safe Options Support \u2014 to work with the NYPD in city subways. That\u2019s great, but we pray this means tough love, not just \u201csupport.\u201d The teams of up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Adams_Hochul-SOS.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[123415,43,66147,72473,71039,98806,71431,71452,5044,70549],"class_list":["post-391130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-7-22","tag-editorial","tag-eric-adams","tag-homeless","tag-homelessness","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-mental-illness","tag-mta","tag-nypd","tag-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391130","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=391130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}