Four months since Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed reforms to expand the state’s laws providing treatment options and support for those living with serious mental illnesses, the calls for doing so grew louder in the days following two attacks last week done by someone having a mental illness crisis.
On April 6, a Brooklyn man attacked four young girls with a cleaver and a knife before being shot and injured by police. Just two days later in Soho, a man with a history of mental illness stabbed a woman with a shard of glass in an unprovoked attack.
