NYC Ramps Up Effort to Remove Mentally Ill From Streets, Subways

Mayor Eric Adams, facing a steep path to reelection, is bolstering efforts to reduce the number of mentally ill people on the streets and subways of New York City.

The city on Wednesday unveiled a dashboard showing where people with serious mental illness have been taken for psychiatric evaluation after contact with police or clinicians. Officials say it’s designed to give policymakers and the public a clearer view of where interventions occur and to measure the impact of new programs.

What the numbers already show is that most of the mentally ill removed from the subways came from just ...