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MTA outreach teams are involuntarily hospitalizing homeless people with signs of mental illness. We rode along for a shift.

Gov. Kathy Hochul recently ordered 750 National Guard members into the subway system to help patrol it.

But that isn’t the only measure she says will improve safety in the transit network that saw another shooting last week – this one on an A train in Downtown Brooklyn.

Hochul is expanding a program that sends mental health workers – along with police officers – to help the homeless. WNYC’s Stephen accompanied one of the outreach teams and has this story.

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