Bike Theft Investigation Leads to Discovery of Dead Woman in Ukiah
Press release from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office:
On 06-26-2024 at approximately 12:55 P.M., Deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office were in the area of Ackerman Creek (east of the 2200 block of North State Street) in Ukiah conducting an investigation regarding the theft of a bicycle from a nearby home.
During their investigation, Deputies attempted to speak with a female who appeared to be sleeping in a tent. When the female did not respond to them, the Deputies investigated further and found the female to be deceased.
Based on evidence located at the scene, the cause of death is suspected to be the result of a drug overdose. The final cause and manner of death is pending an autopsy and toxicology reports.
The decedent was identified as 35-year-old Elizabeth Dockins who was believed to be a transient from the Ukiah, CA area. As a part of this coroner’s investigation, the legal next-of-kin for Dockins was notified.
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Dead homeless stealing bikes now. Ukiah has gone downhill.
Another sad and possibly avoidable ending to a troubled life.
This will continue to be a common occurrence unless and until treatment for drug addiction is mandatory instead of voluntary.
And those suffering from untreated mental illness will continue to flounder on our public streets while millions of dollars are poured down the drain.
The mental illness treatment is what needs to be mandatory. You can not force addiction treatment, we know that.
You’re trying to say mandatory treatment for drug addiction doesn’t work but you’re wrong.
Faced with a choice of prison or treatment, most addicts will “choose” treatment.
And although unwilling and resistant at first the percentage who recover is about the same as it is for those who voluntarily entered treatment instead of being forced into it.
But what’s your solution? Let addicts continue to roam free to steal, pillage and victimize the rest of us?
We should look and treat the reasons why so many people seek out the drugs in the first place . Is it a untreated medical issue they attempted to treat themselves ? Is it a way for them to cope in a fucked up world ? Is it something where their doctors took them off something else and they turned to the streets ? If you look at numbers even a huge portion of housed people are addicted to many of the same type of drugs that homeless are addicted to , the differences are some come from a guy on the street in a little bag and most come from big stores in little brown bottles handed to people by people in white coats for the price of a copay
The major difference is the addicts getting their fix from an Rx are not routinely robbing and stealing from the rest of us to support their habit.
I agree.
Our society has seriously dropped the ball on treating addiction
and mental illness- which is a leading cause of addiction.
And, although providing housing does not in and of itself treat these things,
it has been shown to be a hugely important part of the equation.
Still, it is amazing and unfortunate how much pushback proposals to provide housing, mental healthcare, and addiction treatment receives.
I don’t see that giving people housing works very well. We’ve tried that here, and in San Francisco. Unfortunately the result is trashed homes or hotel rooms and a lot of wasted money. People can argue about what to do all day, but you have to look where are the best results happening. New York City is doing involuntary mental health commitments to hospitals. Of course everyone is wringing their hands about it but it is working- I was there recently and it is so much better than the west coast cities. My opinion- do what works, look for results. What we are doing ISNT working.
Kind of obvious.
Research best practice and then do best practice.
Involuntary mental health commitments were effectively stopped in California with the passage of LPS in 1967 and the failed results are plain to see.
Thank you for an alternative example that seems to be working.
How much longer will California stick with the current ineffective and cruel approach of allowing seriously ill people to refuse treatment?
Mandatory rehab does nothing. Legalize it all and when people are ready to quit then get them help. By mandating it they sneak in drugs etc and keep the people trying to actually get clean from making it due to temptation. Choice have repercussions.
They have the help already. They don’t take up the offers, rather just spark up and zone out every night. Legalization does absolutely nothing to solve addictions, only get rid of the threat of jail time and court fines. Just because something is legal does not mean that people will still be thieving assholes, even if you gave it to them for free. They are still addicts. Get them sober first, then you can work on all the other issues.
What help? Detox and rehab cost money or you are on a long ass waiting list if you get lucky.. Try going in one of our wonderful hospitals around here and asking for help.
It’s the same as legal now – street drugs are plentiful, cheap and deadly – and as a result overdose deaths are at crisis levels so your plan doesn’t seem to be working.
💐💔 So sorry for your loss.🙏
RIP Elizabeth.
I hate this place
It’s terrible this little mama she struggled for a long time really needed some mental health supports. There isn’t any. The opioid issue is a federal crisis a local crisis a mental health crisis cuz everybody’s self treating. It’s a state of emergency we can’t keep being number one in the state and having everybody die here. It’s a tragedy and agreeing with the first commenter it could have been avoided it could have been treated it could have been supported definitely. A lot of these deaths of the millennials that’s who it’s really hitting are avoidable with a little support and some guidance instead of some judgment and guidance instead of some jail time. The measure B money needs to start DOING SOMETHING this endless shuffling of papers and policies splt the hair as we may has squandered millions that never got to the population in the way of REAL services. RIP Liz.
The sad irony is those who are charged with the duty of SERVING AND PROTECTING made actual contact with this person in the routine investigation of a petty criminal matter only to find the woman dead.
I’m with those asking for reconsideration of involuntary treatment of addiction and disabling mental illness . Leaving those decisions up to someone obviously not in their right mind creates these sort of unhappy ending.
I have said this for a really long time if you’re overdosing. Can’t hold down a job. Lost your kids to CPS or something else. Living homeless. Medicating yourself. Estranged from your family and healthy connections. You’re not in you’re right mind. We need to quit looking at people as if they are in their right Minds because in the moment of detention or the moment of something’s going to happen they get it together for that fleeting second to make the right comments and be released to have something like this happen. People battling cravings and addiction are not in their right Minds when it comes to opioids.
https://www.kcra.com/article/federal-judges-fines-california-prison-system-mental-health-care/61446246
Rip.