Richard Perkins, a registered nurse, is tasked with making quick mental health diagnoses of people who appear to be homeless in New York City’s subway stations. He says cops are essential to his team’s work.
Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani has vowed to remove the NYPD from most mental health and homeless outreach. That would gut a program that forces people with mental illness from the subways and into treatment. [ more › ]
