amid a national debate about rising crime, policing, and homelessness, the mayor of new york city has issued a directive for law enforcement and emergency workers to begin hospitalizing more mentally ill people on the streets and subways involuntarily, not just for the safety of others but for their own welfare. it is not acceptable for us to see someone who clearly needs help and walk past. no more walking by or looking away. no more passing the buck. so, this has been getting some pushback. now from brin gin grass. reporter: new york city has had enough. growing up in new york city reminds me of the 90s. it is difficult watching the crime. but mental health is scapegoated. reporter: mayor eric adams is grappling with an issue that is not unique to this city and coming up with a controversial
it is not acceptable for us to see someone who, clearly, needs help, and walk past. no more walking by, or looking away. no more passing the buck. this has been getting some pushback. more from cnn s brynn gingrass. new york city has had enough. growing up in new york city reminds me of the 90s. it is difficult to watch the crime. but, mental health is scapegoated. mayor eric adams, grappling with an issue that is not unique to this city. coming up with a controversial plan, giving first responders, the green light to, involuntarily, commit people to suffering a mental health crisis. the previous plan was, wait until they do something, it is endangering lives, and others and their plan. the move comes as adams faces pressure to make new york
get run over but that s the price that you pay in these situations. this reminds me of the 90s, the heads of seven tobacco companies said open up their hands and said that cigarette smoking is not addictive and you see with these social media platforms and i see it with my kids, six and seven years old but to give them an ipad which was supposed to be for educational purposes only try to take it away when they re watching something they shouldn t and they become like the kid from the exorcist. you see the addiction there in real time and i would just think that in this case, instagram and facebook should be looking at this in terms of the effects of girls health. let me read you a stat, among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 6% of american users traced a desire to kill themselves to instagram. when we need to look into that a little more. harris: power and money.
low look has been done for awhile now. that reminds me of the 90s. put some make up on. america is that which can t go on won t. obama has been the most polarizing president ever. but it goes back to george bush. if you look at an obama and romney match up, we can only go toward the center. they look more ridiculous and will have less and less credibility in the months ahead. she has essentially encouraged lawlessness, she really has. she is posed to maintain order. trouble be gets trouble. they want to have a good time. it has nothing to do with the message of what this whole thing was started on to begin with. and now oakland had enough problems. let s be honest. you are from the bay area, and now look at. it disaster. joy she is she is like the second worst mayor in the bay area. i don t know what you are
same. stone touted walker as a template. jobs have been lost and stone wants more of that that? worse, stone even said he stands with walker s unfair plan. you ve got to be kidding me. jeff stone? jeff stone is scott walker. i think eight years of scott walker is enough. anybody thought the labor movement was dead was wrong. they are brilliant at this. they have come back and made the issue of almost their termination into a sales pitch. it reminds me of the 90s, when the clinton people had bob dole ads attaching newt gingrich. the same thing. this scenario reminds us of when shortly after barack obama s election, republicans had big victories, and a senate race in massachusetts. people were saying it was this is what s happening now, only it s in reverse. we re seeing it in the polling,