Opinion: New York Mayor Eric Adams is making it easier to forcibly hospitalize people suffering from mental illness. Will San Antonio follow?
But Judge Oscar Kazen of Probate Court 1, which oversees civil mental health commitments in Bexar County, said the New York plan poses a more nuanced set of issues.
The pendulum has actually swung too far in the direction of leaving people to suffer in their own illness, Kazen added. So he’s in favor of swinging the pendulum back some. “So, what happens now is is taken to a private hospital, where he is unfunded, so the hospital foots the bill,” Kazen said. “He needs 30 days of treatment, after which he should be handed off to housing and other programs to change his life in the long term. Instead, he gets five days and a shot in the arm, and then he’s back out yelling at dumpsters.”
“That’s a human nature response — you just don’t want to see the problem,” he said. But making “danger to self or others” calls in the field already put extraordinary pressure on police and other first responders.
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