Helter Shelter: Internal reports reveal harrowing violence inside NYC homeless shelters
City records obtained by The Post documented nearly two dozen incidents of violence and other outrageous behavior during one week in mid-September — the same period when a despondent migrant momThe horrors included bloody beatings, unprovoked attacks, vicious domestic abuse and meaningless fights — several of which sent victims for hospital treatment of their injuries.
The Post used the city’s Freedom of Information Law to obtain 424 pages of official reports about 273 “critical incidents” that took place between Sept. 16 and 21.found by one of her two kidsThe incidents that were considered to pose a threat to “the safety and well-being of shelter residents and/or staff” include:
Surveillance cameras caught two staffers fighting inside the shelter at 1851 Phelan Place in the Bronx around 8:30 a.m. Sept. 21. Staffers found a man who was bleeding from the right side of his head and said his assailant — who fled — had threatened him with a knife before bashing him with a “Wet Floor” sign.
A man who lives in the Queens shelter where the resident was attacked in his sleep said he recalled the incident.“I was sleeping and my roommate assaulted me. Nothing was done about it and I felt safer on the street,” he said. “I left because they weren’t helping me. I stayed out in the street for a year.”On Sept. 18, a 32-year-old migrant woman was found by one of her two kids hanging by an electrical cord from a shower rod in the Hollis Family Shelter in Queens.
In a statement, the Department of Social Services defended its efforts to “provide adequate security across the shelter system,” saying that it “continues to strengthen our reporting mechanisms to capture any instances that may impact the well-being of our clients.” that the number of shelter residents who died citywide increased 58% between 2019 and 2021, while records also showed a rise in the numbers of fights, sex offenses and drug overdoses in shelters for single adults.also cited
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