Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature recently passed the 2025 state budget, which included a contentious debate on involuntary commitment for mental health treatment. This legal process allows for the detention of individuals with severe mental illness without consent. The issue has gained urgency in New York City due to high-profile violent incidents involving mentally ill individuals. These events have raised public concern over the treatment of mental illness and homelessness, prompting calls for more stringent measures to address the ongoing crisis.
Many of these horrific incidents have involved people with serious, untreated mental illness, the result of a failure to get treatment to people who are living on the streets.
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