New York Gov. Democrats Kathy Hochul and others are considering enacting involuntary commitment legislation to make it easier for hospitals to treat more people with mental health issues. The New York City subway program has committed a number of violent crimes, and this is in reply. In order to handle the current rise in violent acts on the subway, Hochul announced on Friday that she wants to introduce legislation during the upcoming parliamentary program to alter existing laws governing mental health care. The government claimed that “many of these tragic incidents have involved people with severe untreated mental condition, the result of a failing to treat people who are living on the streets and are disconnected from our mental health care system.” The only honest and sympathetic thing to do is to help our other New Yorkers who are in need of assistance, she continued,” We have a duty to protect the consumer from random acts of violence. We have a duty to protect the consumer from random acts of violence.” According to experts in mental heath, the majority of people who suffer from mental illness do not commit violent crimes, and are far more likely than not to commit violent crimes. What would be altered by her policy, the government did not give specifics. This legislation may expand the definition of “patients whose emotional illness puts themselves or others in danger of severe harm,” she said, adding that hospitals are now able to accept patients whose mental illness puts them or others in serious harm. Hochul added that she would introduce a bill to make it easier for people to freely sign up for those solutions and to improve the way in which courts can order people to receive assisted outpatient mental health care. The governor expressed her “deep gratitude” to law enforcement, who “fight daily to keep our streetcars healthy.” However, she argued that state law shifts cannot solve this issue completely. Public health is my top priority, and I’ll do everything in my power to protect New Yorkers, she said. Police are now able to compel people to be taken to facilities for analysis if they appear to be suffering from mental illness and behave in a way that poses a risk of bodily injury to themselves or others, according to state laws. Finally, psychiatrists must decide whether the patients should be voluntarily hospitalized. In response to a string of violent crimes committed in New York City’s train systems, including one that involved a man slitting two people with a knife in Grand Central on Christmas Eve and setting a sleeping person on fireplace and killing her, according to New York Civil Liberties Union executive chairman Donna Lieberman. The medical histories of the defendants in those three instances were not immediately known, but New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has stated that the man accused of the blade strike in Grand Central had a history of mental illness and that the parents of the person who shoved a man onto the paths had become concerned about his son’s mental health in the months prior to the incident. The FOX News article is available at the following link: http ://www.foxnews.com/. Adams has recently supported a policy that would allow hospitals to unintentionally undertake a person who cannot fulfill their own basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, or clinical care. He has previously urged the state government to expand the laws governing mental health care. The mayor said in a statement following Hochul’s announcement that “denying a person life-saving psychiatric care because their mental illness prevents them from recognizing their desperate need for it is an unacceptable abdication of our moral responsibility.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.