New York City's night-mayor has asked a wide variety of workers to incarcerate homeless people in mental hospitals — including people who are supposed to help the public. This plan is explicitly not limited to people who seem to pose a threat to others.

Many homeless people run away from shelters because the conditions there are so unpleasant they would rather be on the street.

A host of criticisms of this plan.

Once you get committed to a hospital — even if you did it by faking insanity — it is reported to be very hard to prove you are sane.