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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.
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That’s according to a new analysis of the department’s records from 2014-2019 obtained under a recent transparency law.
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The California Reporting Project has been gathering police misconduct files from departments around the state, including Bakersfield. The collaboration,…
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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…
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On Nov. 24, 2017, Robert Cruz Jr. biked north along Baker Street, on a quiet block straddling Bakersfield’s once-thriving old town and struggling new,…
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It’s November 27, 2017 at about 3 p.m. when Hanford Police Officer Jeff Davis first hears a dispatch about a deadly shooting in the small Central Valley…