The Post tagged along on vagrant patrol with the NYPD: ‘We can’t force them’ off subways into shelters

It was an offer they could refuse.

Cops and social workers faced the monumental task this week of convincing unhinged vagrants living in Penn and Herald Square stations to trust them — and accept their offer of help.

Only one did — at least during the two hours that The Post tagged along Wednesday night from 8:30 p.m. to about 10:30 p.m.

Nine members of Mayor Adams’ Partnership Assistance for Transit Homelessness (PATH) team — six cops, two social workers and a nurse — approached 12 vagrants with the chance to sleep in a warm bed. The program began in August…

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