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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.
Troopers based in NYC routinely blew off their duties to chill, sleep with their girlfriends and, in one notorious case, drive to a strip club in New Jersey, get drunk and get arrested for assault, Streetsblog has learned.