Hochul’s Psychiatric Gulag: Liberty Sacrificed, Drug Side Effects Ignored
January 27, 2025
Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, believes that making involuntary commitment laws stronger in the empire state will make a difference in the increased number of random violent and deadly attacks in New York’s subway system and on its streets. The question that must be answered is this a problem of mental illness or a product of mental health intervention?
Hochul did not provide any specifics about the legislation that will be submitted during the Legislature’s upcoming session but promises to “finally change New York’s involuntary commitment standards.” “Finally?”
This knee-jerk legislative action is in response to the two, now famous, subway attacks where in one case a woman was set on fire and burned to death while another involved a man being pushed onto the train tracks into an on-coming train. In both cases, the alleged perpetrators were both known to law enforcement.