NYPD officer's act of kindness goes viral on Facebook

[Franticfrank]

Absolutely fantastic to see that act of kindness. Caps a good week for the NYPD.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Willow rocks for putting this up on the Board.

 

[Katzndogz]

it says america is broken if there is a citizen in the richest country in the world who has never owned a pair of shoes

How do you know he NEVER owned a pair of shoes? Likely he owned a pair of shoes before he became mentally ill, a drug addict or alcoholic. He's too mentally deranged to know that he's entitled to free stuff or where to go for free stuff, something he would be told at any shelter or soup kitchen.

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You probably are right about the mental illness. In fact, were it not for Ronald Reagan having closed all the federally funded mental hospitals this man would be watching tv in a warm ward at Willowbrook hospital on Staten Island instead of sitting shoeless on a public street.

It's not widely known that Reagan dumped tens of thousands of mentally sick people onto the streets. If this DePrimo story is given the attention it deserves maybe right-wing America will get a closer look at their hero, Ronald Reagan, The Man From General Electric.

Reagan had to close those hospitals. The ACLU won a court case and they were closed by an order of the Court. You can't lock people up against their will if they haven't committed a crime. You can't put people away for being mentally ill.

It took three years of litigation for the ACLU to close Willowbrook.

Historians David and Sheila Rothman subsequently published a detailed account of this process in their widely-read The Willowbrook Wars. In 1983, the state of New York announced plans to close Willowbrook, and the last children left the grounds in 1987. The nationwide publicity generated by the Willowbrook case helped contribute to passage of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act of 1980.
ACLU History: Mental Institutions | American Civil Liberties Union

If you are going to make an accusation, get it right.

The homeless man is now barefoot once again. The shoes posed such a threat to his life, he won't wear them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/n...ess-man-says-hes-grateful-for-boots.html?_r=0

His name is Jeffrey Hillman, and on Sunday night, he was once again wandering the streets — this time on the Upper West Side — with no shoes.

The $100 pair of boots that Officer DePrimo had bought for him at a Skechers store on Nov. 14 were nowhere to be seen.

“Those shoes are hidden. They are worth a lot of money,” Mr. Hillman said in an interview on Broadway in the 70s. “I could lose my life.”

 

[MikeK]

How do you know he NEVER owned a pair of shoes? Likely he owned a pair of shoes before he became mentally ill, a drug addict or alcoholic. He's too mentally deranged to know that he's entitled to free stuff or where to go for free stuff, something he would be told at any shelter or soup kitchen.

Free Clothing Resources

You probably are right about the mental illness. In fact, were it not for Ronald Reagan having closed all the federally funded mental hospitals this man would be watching tv in a warm ward at Willowbrook hospital on Staten Island instead of sitting shoeless on a public street.

It's not widely known that Reagan dumped tens of thousands of mentally sick people onto the streets. If this DePrimo story is given the attention it deserves maybe right-wing America will get a closer look at their hero, Ronald Reagan, The Man From General Electric.

Reagan had to close those hospitals. The ACLU won a court case and they were closed by an order of the Court. You can't lock people up against their will if they haven't committed a crime. You can't put people away for being mentally ill.

It took three years of litigation for the ACLU to close Willowbrook.

Historians David and Sheila Rothman subsequently published a detailed account of this process in their widely-read The Willowbrook Wars. In 1983, the state of New York announced plans to close Willowbrook, and the last children left the grounds in 1987. The nationwide publicity generated by the Willowbrook case helped contribute to passage of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act of 1980.
ACLU History: Mental Institutions | American Civil Liberties Union

If you are going to make an accusation, get it right.

The homeless man is now barefoot once again. The shoes posed such a threat to his life, he won't wear them.

Homeless Man Says He?s Grateful for Boots but He?s Barefoot Again - NYTimes.com

His name is Jeffrey Hillman, and on Sunday night, he was once again wandering the streets — this time on the Upper West Side — with no shoes.

The $100 pair of boots that Officer DePrimo had bought for him at a Skechers store on Nov. 14 were nowhere to be seen.

“Those shoes are hidden. They are worth a lot of money,” Mr. Hillman said in an interview on Broadway in the 70s. “I could lose my life.”

Your criticism and correction are acknowledged and I (regrettably) extend apology to the memory of Ronald Reagan for my error. No harm done, however, because there remains plenty to despise that dimwitted corporatist puppet for.

 

[Katzndogz]

Democrats will never run out of fake stories.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Katzndogs does not understand America at all.

 

[Political Junky]

Homeless man grateful for boots, but barefoot again | The Lookout - Yahoo! News


The homeless man who was photographed being given a pair of boots by a New York City police officer in Times Square on a bitterly cold night last month was spotted on the Upper West Side on Sunday. And he was once again barefoot.
"Those shoes are hidden," Jeffrey Hillman, the 54-year-old homeless man, told the New York Times. "They are worth a lot of money—I could lose my life."
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[Noomi]

^I bet he sold the shoes for drugs.

 

[Politico]

You can't put people away for being mentally ill.

Umm...yes they can.

The homeless man is now barefoot once again. The shoes posed such a threat to his life, he won't wear them.

No he won't wear them because he is nuts which is why he's out there to begin with. They are hoarded away with the rest of his stuff some of which are probably other shoes.

 

[MikeK]

^I bet he sold the shoes for drugs.

That is one possibility. Another is he's insane, as are a considerable percentage of homeless derelicts.

 

[MikeK]

Democrats will never run out of fake stories.

Actually it is you who makes use of a story which, while not totally false, imparts the same effect:

The fact is the ACLU lawsuit you cite does not apply to all mental patients but mainly to those who are committed to asylums by court order without psychiatric recommendation. And the suit was prompted by the appalling conditions in some asylums. While the Carter Administration did implement provisions (funding) to correct those conditions Reagan rescinded that funding which caused thousands of mentally disturbed patients to be discharged onto the streets.

So the fact remains; Ronald Reagan is indeed responsible for derelicts such as the one in the DePrimo story -- and many thousands more.

(Excerpt)

Cuts in funding for mental health services continued throughout the 1980s, with the emphasis being on the provision of services via the private sector. Overall, the number of beds available to the mentally ill in public and private hospitals dropped ov er forty percent between 1970 and 1984 (Reamer, 1989). Most of this decline was due to cuts in public hospitals. During the 1980s, the number of beds provided by general hospitals in psychiatric wards and in private hospitals for the mentally ill increased. In 1970, there were 150 private psychiatric centers; in 1980, there were 184; by 1988, there were 450 in the United States. General hospitals offering psychiatric services increased from 1,259 in 1984 to over two thousand in 1988 (Reamer, 1989, 25; LaF ond and Durham, 1992, 115-16). With such growth in the private sector, there were substantial profits to be made in mental illness, assuming that the patient had adequate health insurance. Those without medical insurance frequently did not receive adequate care.

(Close)

Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill: <br>Capital, Interest Groups, and the Eclipse of Social Policy

Bottom line: While Reagan is not totally to blame for the situation he is primarily responsible for it.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Katz belongs in one of those institutions.

 

[Katzndogz]

As it turns out, Jeffrey Hillman, the homeless man isn't homeless at all. His shoes are probably at his place. Neither is he without a family. He has just refused their help preferring life on the street. Preferring to go shoeless.

Barefoot homeless man immortalized in photo isn't actually homeless - NY Daily News

Now he wants to be paid for his picture. No one has actually made any money from this photo, but he wants money anyway.

Barefoot Again, Homeless Man Wants &#39;Piece of the Pie&#39; - Jeffrey Hillman hid shoes: &#39;They&#39;re worth a lot of money&#39;

How did he come to this situation? Maybe he was avoiding paying child support for his two kids and it got out of hand.

Hillman is a derelict because this is the way he chooses to live, when he's not home. He's a professional beggar. Just another piece of shit looking for more handouts.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The cop was taken in by a scam. It happens.

 

[Katzndogz]

Katz belongs in one of those institutions.

In a better world, we would be rounding these people up and warehousing them.

 

[MikeK]

Katz belongs in one of those institutions.

In a better world, we would be rounding these people up and warehousing them.

The world was a better place when we were doing exactly that. The warehouses were federally subsidized state mental hospitals. But Reagan cut the funding to those places so he could send more money to his buddies in the Military Industrial Complex.

 

[Si modo]

Thank you those who said good, supportive things on this thread....the rest of you? Meh...not so much.

This cop rocks!

There is so much hate and fear concentrated on this board. Its sad and hurtful to see people post obvious lies just get sympathy. Or people who post lies to cause more hate and fear.

Thanks for saying this because, no matter else may or may not be true about this story, one person reached out to help another for no other reason than caring and compassion and all the hate and suspicion and fear does not change that.

I see more positive in this thread than you do. I'll PM you the name of my optometrist, if you would like....

Awesome guy, that cop. Awesome find, Willow.




Merry Christmas, everyone.

 

[Katzndogz]

Reagan may have been manipulated by democrats into cutting some funding, but what happened in the more than 20 years since? Is obama inclined to start locking up the mentally ill? Was Clinton?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Katz is absolutely correct.

Dems now would say the state should not impose on civil liberties and the Pubs would argue states and free markets are the answers.

Reagan may have been manipulated by democrats into cutting some funding, but what happened in the more than 20 years since? Is obama inclined to start locking up the mentally ill? Was Clinton?

 

[Politico]

As it turns out, Jeffrey Hillman, the homeless man isn't homeless at all. His shoes are probably at his place. Neither is he without a family. He has just refused their help preferring life on the street. Preferring to go shoeless.

Barefoot homeless man immortalized in photo isn't actually homeless - NY Daily News

Now he wants to be paid for his picture. No one has actually made any money from this photo, but he wants money anyway.

Barefoot Again, Homeless Man Wants 'Piece of the Pie' - Jeffrey Hillman hid shoes: 'They're worth a lot of money'

How did he come to this situation? Maybe he was avoiding paying child support for his two kids and it got out of hand.

Hillman is a derelict because this is the way he chooses to live, when he's not home. He's a professional beggar. Just another piece of shit looking for more handouts.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The cop was taken in by a scam. It happens.

The homeless man said he'd never had a pair of shoes. DePrimo purchased a pair of insulated boots and thermal socks and put them on the man's feet.
Read more: NYPD officer's act of kindness goes viral on Facebook | Fox News

What does this sentence say to you?

You mean the smell of bullshit in the air part?

you're unpleasant, aren't you?

You mean the smell of bullshit in the air part?

Or maybe because people that have been suffering for so long just don't remember some things? He probably didn't remember when he last wore shoes. What does it matter?

So my bullshit meter was correct. Apology accepted.

 

[Si modo]

The recipient of the shoes may be a POS, but it still doesn't detract from the kindness this young cop showed for another. Yeah, the cop was duped, but he still did the right thing.

Merry Christmas.