Mayor Adams is calling for improving mental health care in NYC, but the city continues to cut services

Key Facts

• Mayor Adams this week sounded the alarm over the city’s mental health crisis and called for action — but over the past few years, the city has reduced a number of key services and, more recently, cut funding from a mental health emergency response program.
• Adams has repeatedly blamed a rash of violent crimes in the subways on mental health issues.
• To address the crisis, he has saturated streets and subways with police officers, and on Tuesday, he issued a new directive to involuntarily place more people with severe, untreated mental illnesses.
• Mayor Eric Adams (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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