Who’s prodding the homeless mentally ill into care under new law?

No, droves of mentally ill people haven’t been yanked off the streets, thrown into padded wagons and medicated against their will.

Actually, the first year of California’s CARE Court action might be described as a deliberate, prudent, cautious foray into a fraught landscape where individual rights and societal responsibility meet, earnestly trying to avoid collision, carefully executing a delicate dance.

The law, championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and shepherded through the Legislature by Sen.