Key changes to mental health law in new state budget gives the NYPD a go-ahead to truly help

Gov. Hochul pushed legislators to codify the idea that an inability to meet basic living needs justifies involuntary hospitalization.

Stephen Eide: Police and other front-line personnel don’t have to wait for suicidality or a violent threat to develop.

The point was to change the culture as much as the law, Eide says.