Sasha Abramsky argues that court-mandated care connects unhoused individuals to supportive services, while Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu and Ruth Sangree write that psychiatric incarceration is cruel and ineffective.
Following an administrative trial last January, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell is still weighing whether to fire Sergeant Hugh Barry, who killed Deborah Danner in 2016.