As Mayor Adams and the NYPD celebrate the arrest of a suspect in the shooting of at least five unhoused men, it’s worth asking this: What were they doing to keep New York’s unhoused residents safe to begin with? cliomiso writes
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Shortly before the arrest of a suspect in the shooting of at least five unhoused men sleeping on the streets of New York and Washington, Eric Adams, in a joint statement with D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser, said it was “heartbreaking and tragic to know that in addition to all the dangers that unsheltered residents face, we now have a cold-blooded killer on the loose.” He urged people to get off the street — to safety.
Although the mayor has emphasized that his plan includes resources to move people into shelters, some of those unhoused people avoid the city’s shelter system for good reason: They feel less safe there than they do sleeping outside or on the subway. In February, after the mayor’s plan went into effect, an unhoused resident, John Timpa, told WABC about his experience being asked by police to leave the train. “They just kept telling me to get out, get out, get out. ‘Go outside.
Congregate shelters saw a surge in COVID-19 cases during the latest Omicron wave, which is one reason some unsheltered New Yorkers say they avoid them. “People are going to go back to the street rather than go back to congregate shelter,” Helen Strom, a legal advocate with the Safety Net Project, told The City this summer. “That is how bad that environment is for people.”
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