
Subway outreach (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)
In January 1999, Kendra Webdale, a 32-year-old writer, was pushed to her death into the path of an oncoming N train by a schizophrenic man. Webdale’s death prompted the passage of the eponymously named Kendra’s Law, which allows courts to order a person to receive supervised mental health treatment, also known as assisted outpatient treatment, failing which they can be temporarily committed to a hospital.
Twenty-three years later, the killing of 40-year-old Michelle Go in eerily
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