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Why is it so hard to get mentally ill homeless people, living in the subway system, the treatment they need and deserve?
That question forms the core of Nolan Hicks’s unparalleled deep dive into the city’s $30-billion-a-year social safety net — a net so riven with holes that it can’t accomplish what everyone says is absolutely necessary: Getting a population of 1,000 or so people the care they need.
Read Hicks’s story, exclusively on Streetsblog today. It’s an eye-opener.
A first full fleet inventory led to 70 fewer vehicles, fewer take-home cars and new accountability for crashes. Experts say New York’s deficit-ridden cities should audit their own.
He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.