If you just need some clothes, shower, some medication, we got you. If you need longer help, we're going to have stabilization centers to get people help. Right now we send people to Rikers, they get worse, and in the worst case scenario, they end up dying. or we send them to the emergency room where they end up cycling back out. Those two things are not working right now. So we got to have something in between. (04:46–04:51)
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