"This was a horrible horrible crime. Thank god the NYPD caught the assailant."
"He did not have contact with mental health service providers," "We don't see any indication of mental health issues having manifested in way that led him to those services," Hizzoner adds.
We put these questions to DHS this afternoon and were told to beat it.
"I think that it's important for the people to see themselves being protected," says de Blasio, when pressed by Errol on why badges on the rails will fix the homelessness/mental health crises on the subways.
And de Blasio's talking about how the city needs to do more on mental health and Errol's circling back -- basically -- that de Blasio's been mayor for seven years.
Hizzoner says that "more and more" social workers and EMT's will respond to mental health calls. City Hall announced a pilot a few months ago -- and couldn't even say what neighborhoods it would be piloted in. I do not believe there's been any additional progress on this front.
"It’s a new pilot project without a plan — or even a name — being overseen by New York City first lady Chirlane McCray’s embattled billion-dollar ThriveNYC program." -- nypost.com/2020/11/10/may…
And now de Blasio sounds like he opposes the partial subway shutdown rollback at this point? "We've got to keep the subways clean," Hizzoner says. Except, that's not really how COVID spreads.
And implicitly admits the city's been using the shutdowns to try and cajole the homeless off trains into shelters.
(Which has always been an unwritten subtext to this whole thing)
De Blasio also talked around Errol's q on the MTA's request for a thousand additional cops. Said that if the MTA hires its own cops, they should be trained by the NYPD, but doesn't say what he thinks of the boost of 1500 uniforms (500 already added, request for 1000).
De Blasio keeps talking about how the need for information makes it harder to simplify the system, which uses some criticisms to try to answer others. Complicated applications aren't good. Making folks do three of them just for city-run sites is kind of nuts.
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POST ANALYSIS: Cuomo's refusal to provide hospital death data meant that nursing home-linked COVID fatalities in NYC were under counted by 50-plus percent, an examination of new state data reveals -- nypost.com/2021/02/15/cuo…
- Nearly all of the 162 city nursing homes that reported COVID-19 deaths inside their walls — 152 — had residents die after being sent to hospitals for treatment.
- Hospital data caused COVID death toll at one facility to jump 1000%
"There is a toxic political environment and everything gets politicized," says Andrew Cuomo, about @bern_hogan's reporting, deriding it without disputing a single thing.
@bern_hogan What Cuomo is saying about the DOJ request is not what Melissa DeRosa is caught on tape saying about the DOJ request.
@bern_hogan "The New York State DOH has always fully and completely reported" nursing home deaths, claims Cuomo, which is decidedly not the case.
Today is a day the governor runs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority!
As Pat Foye demands the city provide more housing and social services to the homeless and mentally ill, it's important to remember -- nytimes.com/2011/06/01/nyr…
Lehrer's question: You accepted the DOI report but the special response group -- accused of repeatedly roughing up protestors sans cause -- keeps responding to protestors. Why?