Tree Branch Breaker

And on Park, between Vanderbilt and Underhill.

There are a bunch of broken branches on Eastern Parkway between Nostrand and New York...

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i think the easiest way to solve this problem would be to contact Tupper Thomas , she may be in need of a tree pruner

I just chased him away from the tree in front of the pulp.

This problem will never been solved. Civil libertarians have all but blocked mental health treatment for patients unwilling to voluntarily seek help. Unless Steve is an imminent threat to self or others, he will never be kept on an inpatient unit for more than a week or so. There is a tremendous pressure to rapidly discharge patients, even in public facilities such as Kings County Hospital. Even AOT is ultimately toothless. Better get used to seeing broken trees in the neighborhood.

Carnivore, here are two other scenarios:

1. He attacks someone's personal tree and they press charges.

....for example he could come into the manicured front garden area of a brownstone, and trash it while someone takes pictures.

2. His mother puts him out to save her own sanity. He disappears. (or with our luck, reappears at a shelter ...the Atlantic Ave Armory)

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And now, educational jabbering for people who are not familiar with the mental health field.

Above, Jack Krohn uses the abbreviation AOT, which stands for Assisted Outpatient Treatment ...which is basically what someone is forced into when Kendra's law is actually applied. http://bi.omh.state.ny.us/aot/about?p=eligibility

Long time readers of this thread may remember similar links.

That said, much of the mental health field believes the law is very weak.
For example, the law has resulted in very little dedicated funding for clinics to provide adequate services ...and the ACT teams that have been created to fill the need of those unable to be effectively served by clinics (see prior reading) are constantly filled to capacity.

In addition, Kendra's Law and AOT are strictly outpatient focused: They contains no dedicated funding to hospitals to do the evaluations, and the ERs where patients are brought are still required to use the same strict criteria for inpatient hospitalization regardless of whether someone being evaluated has been "Kendra-ized" or "AOTed" (yes, some use it as a verb).

As a result, many perceive the law as Jack puts it: "toothless".

...but most agree it is far better than what the the field (and the public) had before, which was literally nothing.

Ah, the war between the civil libertarians and those who work in the field.

The civil libertarians consistently argue that institutions are inherently evil, and that people with mental illness should be able to live in the community with supports.

They are correct. ...However, we live in a society that despite lawsuits, etc. simply does not provide those supports. We have a barely functioning outpatient mental health system, one that can barely serve those well enough to ACTIVELY SEEK treatment.

To which the civil libertarians respond: "The majority of patients will still be better off outside of institutions than imprisoned within them"

And therein lies much of the problem: No one agrees on who "knows what is best" for those with serious mental illness AND who will not consent to treatment.

Is it the aforementioned civil libertarians?

Or it is the inpatient mental health system, with its entrenched financial interests, history of unclear outcomes? ...let's not forget the racial and income disparities!

Or is it the family of the person who is ill? (needless to say, anguished families reach different conclusions each month regarding care decisions.)



...all of which leads to the mess we currently live in.

...and leads me to:

Hereby request that the readers of this blog once again pester the precinct, elected officials, APS, OMH and Civil Court system.

Yes, they already know about him. ...but perhaps some more public pressure can get them to interpret their capabilities and responsibilities a little differently.

thanks

I urge everyone to once again contact Tish James; her office got the ball rolling last time. Her email address is: [email protected].

Lots of freshly broken branches on the dog walk this morning. I'm rounding up the pitchforks and torches and getting ready to march on the castle.

on Friday night he broke large branches off several newly planted trees on Saint Marks between Washington and Grand.

email response from Tish James -

My office has already been contacted. As you may know, our office previously contacted the authorities and he was arrested. We recommended that he be transferred to a mental health hospital for examination and treatment. Unfortunately, his case was handled in the criminal justice system, and not mental health, and he was therefore released after serving a brief sentence. We will contact authorities and urge the same again. Thank you.

Sadly, a similar "process" (?) would be followed if he were destroying private property.

....NO ONE wants the seriously mentally ill.

i.e. The inpatient mental health system doesn't want them, and doesn't have the authority to keep them.

i.e. The criminal justice system simply doesn't want them.

To satisfy the victims, he might arrested more if he damaged windshields, but I suspect the ADA assigned to the case would decline to pursue the cases, and (conveniently without the knowledge of the victim) he'd just be released.

...lots of forces would prevent him from ever being charged with a felony.

Circular door.

....outpatient treatment, in the form of an ACT team is our best hope.

If someone can get mom on board, we are far better off. She has a lot more standing in getting Kendra's law applied, than any ] of the folks who have so far posted on this thread. (and we've had some pretty informed posters represented here ...trust me).

I just hope Mom hasn't gotten to the point where she trusts no one as a result of experiencing "our" mental health system for decades.

[I don't mean to depress readers too much. But, remember, in many view of many respected people, the present mental health "system" is actually the BETTER than it has ever been]

https://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/cmi/nyc_ltr.html