The deinstitutionalizing of the mentally ill in the 1970s followed directly from the ACLU lawsuits against committment of the mentally ill. This followed the movie, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” That is a damn poor way of making public policy but that is what we have. Now we have one more murder to chalk up to the ACLU. Here is another such example. Mental health professionals worry about the effects. Still, nothing is done.The legal situation is chaotic. But still people, psychotic and their victims, continue to die.