Just Who Is Really Mentally Ill Here?

Re the article by Tim Rutten concerning the mentally ill on Wilshire (“Wilshire Has No Miracle Miles for the State’s Mentally Ill,” June 7):

Says the stooped black man with a gray beard and a stained tan overcoat: “On TV, they make lies. The lies get in your mind and make you do things.”

And you say he’s mentally ill?

PAUL V. McDOWELL

Los Angeles