Adams’ Advocacy for Involuntary Treatment: Correspondence

The Matter at Hand: Mayor Adams and others advocating for involuntary treatment to address the mental health crisis.

Mayor Adams is absolutely right regarding this matter (“Commit with compassion,” Mayor Eric Adams, April 11).

Across America, there are hundreds of thousands of individuals suffering from severe mental illness living on the streets. If we include those with criminally insane behaviors who have been sent here from other countries due to opened borders, President Trump is now confronted with a significant issue that needs immediate action.

In large cities, federal hospitals dedicated to the mentally ill should be established to tackle this problem.

Daniel Robinowitz

Dallas, Texas

We’ve witnessed a “possessed” wigmaker committing murder, a man wielding a meat cleaver injuring children, and recently, another man randomly attacked a woman with a broken bottle, despite having undergone 36 mental health hearings.

The inability to manage these incidents underscores a critical issue that is often overlooked: As a community, we must change the perception that crimes committed by individuals with mental illnesses should be excused simply because they lack control. This notion only facilitates the exploitation of the system by genuine criminals.

Larry Chipley

Ocean View, Del.

A man with a history of 36 mental health hearings and a criminal background was allowed to roam free and attacked a young woman; this is no surprise. Such occurrences have become alarmingly frequent.

How much longer will this go on? The radical Albany Legislature must enable much greater measures for involuntary commitment. These individuals need hospital care or, when necessary, incarceration.

Joseph Valente

Staten Island

Why are Democrats, particularly in New York, so zealously committed to safeguarding the rights of offenders over those of victims?

Every day, news reports reinforce this issue. Hopefully, soon the Democrats will recognize that their current approach has no future.

Jim Forkan

Bayside

It is urgent to confine those suffering from severe mental illness into appropriate facilities.

Repeatedly, it’s shown that jail is not the solution. These individuals are simply released and reoffend.

Mo Colarusso

Manhattan

The Matter at Hand: Mayor Adams’ initiative to hire 3,700 teachers in line with New York’s class size statute.

In another display of mismanagement in New York City’s public education system, Mayor Adams will now endorse the recruitment of 3,700 new teachers (“The Class-Size Con,” Editorial, April 11).

All this for a school system that is experiencing declining enrollment rates and has consistently failed to adequately educate children. In reality, this is just another favor to the teachers’ union.

If New York genuinely aimed to provide quality education, three actions would be taken: Increase the number of charter school licenses, collaborate with the Archdiocese of New York to restore parochial schools, and restructure the Department of Education with capable leadership and tangible standards of excellence.

John Mancuso

Naples, Fla.

Reducing class sizes and hiring 3,700 new teachers serves the Union’s goal to occupy vacant classrooms that will no longer be designated for charter schools.

Academic performance will rise, and parental involvement will only grow when welfare benefits are tied to student test scores. Nothing else has proven effective in my 50 years of experience.

Disregard the UFT; it advocates for adults’ interests, not for the children. That should be the Department of Education’s responsibility, and it is failing miserably.

Michael Castagna

Brooklyn

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