Ben Hattem

Watchdogs have found that patients on the psychiatric units at Bellevue are restrained, held in seclusion, and forcibly injected with sedatives at dramatically higher rates than patients at other public hospitals in the city.

"It was never really a gang...It was just us. It was just living in the projects."

At least two people on the NYC Safe list have been involuntarily hospitalized without the assent of psychiatrists.