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New York Post
09-05-2025
- Health
- New York Post
Key changes to mental health law in new state budget gives the NYPD a go-ahead to truly help
The new state budget brings with it important changes to mental-health law that will benefit New York City. Notably, Gov. Hochul pushed legislators to codify the idea that an inability to meet basic living needs — not just dangerousness — justifies involuntary hospitalization. Police and other front-line personnel don't have to wait for suicidality or a violent threat to develop. Technically, cops already had the authority to intervene using the basic living-needs standard. But that was based on an interpretation of state law. Now New York state makes crystal clear that there can be no excuse not to act when someone is deteriorating in plain view because of untreated psychosis. The point was to change the culture as much as the law. In the imagination of progressive advocates, patrol officers wake up every morning eager to participate in a mass roundup of the mentally ill. Nothing could be further from the truth. Thanks to decades of conflicting directions, cops tend to regard a schizophrenic homeless person who's desperately sick but not attacking anyone as a problem that's under control. Thus full implementation of Hochul's legal changes will require cops to become more proactive with the mentally ill homeless than they're used to being. And political leaders, for their part, need to send a strong message that they support cops in their new, more interventionist role. Further investment Implementation will also take more money. In this and past budgets, Hochul has been active in replenishing New York's stock of psychiatric hospital beds. But further investments will be needed. It's pointless to commit a mentally ill person to a psych bed that does not exist. In short, New Yorkers should view the changes to state law as a down payment on mental-health reform. The subways remain unacceptably disorderly. But help is coming. More tools are available thanks to Hochul's efforts. Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a 2024–25 Public Scholar at The City College of New York's Moynihan Center.
CBC
25-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Keener Sounds: A Suite by Roger Greenwald
The poet, when young, listened to a violinist practicing and wondered: "Could words as well be made to say the wordless?" This question animates Keener Sounds: A Suite, a sequence of contemporary sonnets in which music as both subject and inspiration accompanies evocative explorations of love, grief, time, and memory. With a bold lyricism, Roger Greenwald makes the sonnet form his own, both vital and new. Paintings by Arielle Sandler serve as intermezzos between the sections of this moving poetic suite. (From Black Widow Press) Books by past CBC Nonfiction Prize finalists being published in 2025 Greenwald attended The City College of New York and the Poetry Project workshop at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, then completed graduate degrees at the University of Toronto. He has published three earlier books of poems: Connecting Flight, Slow Mountain Train and The Half-Life. He won the 2018 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award from Exile Magazine. Greenwald won the CBC Poetry Prize in 1994 and First Prize in the CBC Literary Award for Travel Literature in 2003.
