Civil rights attorney Norman Siegel has been an ally of Mayor Adams for decades. Now he argues his friend's plan to fix homelessness is not only bound to fail due to a lack of sufficient mental health services, but also violates the constitutional rights.
“Most of my career has been being the outsider,” Siegel said. “But now there's an opportunity for me to be a little in the inside, have some access, but also still be who I am, which is the outsider, the gadfly, the troublemaker causing questions that need to be raised.”
...Now there's an opportunity for me to be a little in the inside, have some access, but also still be who I am, which is the outsider.He says he has made his objections known to the mayor and his advisers. “Rooted in what we are doing is love,” he said in an interview with Gothamist. “And when you love someone, you know that you're going to disagree with them sometimes.”
Earlier this week, an NYPD official shared data with the City Council showing the number of people that have been involuntarily transported to hospitals after being suspected of having mental illness through mid-March isSiegel is now focused on expanding the number of volunteers, which he hopes to grow to at least 100. On Sunday, the group will hold a recruiting event at NYU that is open to the public.
The group is beginning to track outcomes by getting homeless people to sign a waiver that allows volunteers to inquire about them once they enter the city’s shelter system. Siegel has also pitched a plan for the city to use eminent domain to seize vacant hotels.
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