Tree Branch Breaker

Thanks! Good to hear...

While thread was active, several readers and friends-of-friends did a lot of outreach to folks we know in the press, NYPD, social service/mental health, criminal justice, politics and other industries. This laid a foundation.

Then, once he was in custody, "everyone" (especially the press) was asked to thoroughly reference his mental illness, to ensure that the promises that had been made by allies would be kept.

The quantity and quality of the response by the press can be seen in these pages of Google search results:

http://www.google.com/search?q=steve+maynard+tree+brooklyn&hl=en&gbv=2&gs_l=heirloom-hp.3..0i30.2540.7243.0.8249.19.17.0.2.2.0.116.904.16j1.17.0...0.0...1c.1.vgQ1qESIFNg&oq=steve+maynard+tree+brooklyn

A well written after-the-fact article appeared in Vice. http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/06/20/arborcide-in-brooklyn/

The article made the rounds of the Social Service and mental health communities, which also had the effect of passing this thread around via social media.

As a result of the combination of these factors, this thread's "hit count" got pretty high....