Honolulu is widening a program that lets health workers and police pick up people in mental health crisis on the street and take them for treatment — good news for those who have been suffering in public, though it involves taking some people in against their will.

• The program pairs a community outreach team with Honolulu police to get people off the street and into care.
• Trained officers can move someone by ambulance even without consent when needed, but more than half go willingly.
• It has helped 150 people since starting as a pilot in December.
• Officials say the people targeted are often a danger to themselves and to others, and the approach is meant to be firm but humane.

Outlook: The expansion should push those numbers higher, and the involuntary transport piece will likely draw scrutiny as it scales.