"Regardless of the mayor’s positioning, I plan to attend tonight’s tour and put public service over political posturing — I hope the mayor can follow that example. It’s my responsibility as Public Advocate to monitor implementation of these programs together with other elected officials — not to co-sign harmful and ineffective systems, but to bring transparency and accountability to them.
"The mayor has been wrong to pursue ever-increasing policing of poverty and mental health, rather than better use existing tools and increasing continuum of care. While seeing a snapshot of the operations tonight is important, it doesn’t replace what people with lived experience and citywide data are telling us. Hopefully after tonight, the mayor will stop misleading the public about the tools already available to us, the outcomes of the city’s failures to use those tools, and the need for strategies that focus on helping people, not hiding them away."
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