WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses a plan by New York City Mayor Eric Adams that directs the police and emergency medical workers to hospitalize people they deemed too mentally ill to care for themselves, even if they posed no threat to others.
Dr. Alan Chartock's Morning Commentary
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