NYPD Commissioner appears to forget the closing of the "flophouses" under the misguided goal of cleaning up blighted neighborhoods. Before the cleanup, alcoholic homeless persons were able to get enough to pay for a night off the streets. When the cheap overnight housing units were destroyed there was no place to stay. These people ended up on the streets of the cities and towns. Blaming de-institutionaization is a diversion for the benefit of the psychiatric industry and the pharmaceutical corporations in partnership with the human services industrial complex (MA State Rep. Marie Parente's term). Here again the Police Commissioner blames mental illness for the problem. What about housing as a solution? Ever think of that Mr. Bratton?
[From article]
There have been two attacks by homeless people in recent days. One of them involved a 72 year-old architect waiting at a corner, stabbed in the neck with a pair of scissors by a homeless woman.
The other attack was on a tourist leaving his Grand Central hotel. He was clubbed in the face by a homeless man.
[link to this story is no good. Did Fox NY destroy the story? Some times editors take them off line. Others have similar stories, e.g., CBS, New York Post]
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/29635780/city-hall-nypd-ponder-strategy-as-attacks-by-homeless-increase
City Hall, NYPD ponder strategy as attacks by homeless increase
Posted: Jul 26, 2015 6:30 PM EDT
Updated: Jul 27, 2015 9:01 AM EDT
By ARTHUR CHI'EN
Fox 5 News Reporter
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