Bakersfield Police Department

Advocates say the department is "denying clear evidence that there needs to be systemic change" to how it uses force.

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BPD has implemented a number of changes in its policies and procedures following an agreement with the California Department of Justice.

That’s according to a new analysis of the department’s records from 2014-2019 obtained under a recent transparency law.

The California Reporting Project has been gathering police misconduct files from departments around the state, including Bakersfield. The collaboration,…

The California Department of Justice has reached an agreement Monday with the Bakersfield Police Department to implement a wide-range of policing…

Over a four year period, police officers in Bakersfield broke 45 bones in 31 people, and in no case did the officers involved in those encounters violate…

Last summer’s reckoning over police brutality against Black people, led both Fresno and Bakersfield to establish commissions of community members, charged…

In a letter to Bakersfield Police Chief Greg Terry, the ACLU is accusing the Bakersfield Police Department of biased policing during a Nov. 1…