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By GARY BUISO
December 30, 2012
The city streets are teeming with thousands of mentally ill homeless people capable of psychotic acts of random violence if left untreated, experts warned yesterday.
As many as 11,000 of the citys 33,000 homeless adults have some form of mental illness, said D.J. Jaffe, executive director of the Mental Illness Policy Organization.
Of that number, about 3,300 are potentially violent, Jaffe said.
When untreated, theyre capable of horrific acts, said Jaffe. The danger is that theyre so sick that they dont know theyre sick, and their brain is incapable of regulating their own behavior.
He urged New Yorkers to be especially wary of people screaming at voices only they can hear, wearing tons of clothes in the summer or eating out of trash cans.
But if youre walking down the street, you know whos mentally ill it doesnt take a nuclear scientist.
Jaffe said steps must be taken to strengthen Kendras Law a loophole-ridden 1999 measure intended to allow courts to forcibly treat the dangerously unhinged.
We want mandatory evaluations of all mentally ill who are being released from jails, prisons or involuntary hospitalizations, he said.
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Beware: 11,000 of NYC's 33,000 homeless adults have some form of mental illness - NYPOST.com
December 30, 2012
The city streets are teeming with thousands of mentally ill homeless people capable of psychotic acts of random violence if left untreated, experts warned yesterday.
As many as 11,000 of the citys 33,000 homeless adults have some form of mental illness, said D.J. Jaffe, executive director of the Mental Illness Policy Organization.
Of that number, about 3,300 are potentially violent, Jaffe said.
When untreated, theyre capable of horrific acts, said Jaffe. The danger is that theyre so sick that they dont know theyre sick, and their brain is incapable of regulating their own behavior.
He urged New Yorkers to be especially wary of people screaming at voices only they can hear, wearing tons of clothes in the summer or eating out of trash cans.
But if youre walking down the street, you know whos mentally ill it doesnt take a nuclear scientist.
Jaffe said steps must be taken to strengthen Kendras Law a loophole-ridden 1999 measure intended to allow courts to forcibly treat the dangerously unhinged.
We want mandatory evaluations of all mentally ill who are being released from jails, prisons or involuntary hospitalizations, he said.
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Read more at:
Beware: 11,000 of NYC's 33,000 homeless adults have some form of mental illness - NYPOST.com