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Beginning in 2020, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2023/01/31/cities-pandemic-moving-trends\">dense metropolitan coast saw an outflux\u003c/a> of people, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/15/upshot/migrations-college-super-cities.html\">educated white-collar workers\u003c/a>, suddenly untethered from the office, packed their bags in search of cheaper and more socially distanced modes of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many smaller California towns, the surge of new residents competing for housing has placed new financial pressures on lower-income residents, upended local housing markets and, in some cases, shifted the politics around housing and affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/14082160/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"850\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Maria, just an hour up the 101 from Santa Barbara, the last three years have been a “perfect storm” for renters, said Victor Honma, who oversees housing vouchers across the region for the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town was awash in suburb-seeking homebuyers from Los Angeles, the Bay Area and nearby Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. The suddenly hot housing market persuaded many longtime local property owners to sell their rentals to the wave of new homebuyers, reducing the rental stock further. And though Santa Maria had always had a “healthy supply of inventory,” said Honma, the available homes ran on the large side, leaving few one-bedroom units to go around for many suddenly desperate renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These trends were in the works prior to 2020, but “the pandemic was a stimulus,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same story in Bakersfield, where rents have jumped 39% since March 2020, as priced-out Angelenos migrated north of the Grapevine, said Stephen Pelz, executive director of the housing authority in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then rising interest rates have cooled the national housing market. But Pelz said the higher cost of borrowing has only added to the woes of Kern County renters: Fewer people purchasing homes has meant more competition for the area’s remaining rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An inevitable consequence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jeff Tucker, an economist at Zillow, said the inland rental crunch is the inevitable result of California’s overall housing shortage, as the affordability crisis along the coast ripples outward. Cities in the Central Valley used to enjoy a healthy “affordability advantage” over coastal urban areas, he said. But that advantage has begun to shrink over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been moving towards that more affordable option when they don’t have anywhere else in California that they can afford,” said Tucker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Tucker, economist, Zillow\"]‘People have been moving towards that more affordable option when they don’t have anywhere else in California that they can afford.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Zillow’s seasonally adjusted “observed rent index” — a kind of gussied-up average that strips out exceptionally pricey or cheap outliers in a given market — the typical rent in the Fresno metropolitan used to be 54% cheaper than that in San Francisco. As of June 2023, that discount dropped to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south in Bakersfield, where renters used to pay roughly half of L.A. area tenants, on average, the difference has narrowed to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, that’s just a function of arithmetic. In both the Bakersfield and the Los Angeles metro areas, the typical rent has increased by a little more than $500 since the beginning of the pandemic. Because Kern County rents were much lower, $500 represents a larger percentage hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the average Bakersfield area resident, that $500 rent hike pinches a lot harder: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescountycalifornia,kerncountycalifornia/PST045222\">average income in Kern County is roughly $25,000\u003c/a>, according to the most recent Census data. In L.A. County, the average is $38,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some modest relief could be on the way.[aside postID=news_11955733 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1444525626-1-1020x680.jpg']The cities of Bakersfield, Visalia and Fresno have all permitted roughly 15% more units in 2021 and 2022 than they did in the two years before the pandemic, according to data collected by the state Housing and Community Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">Santa Maria has permitted 150% more\u003c/a>. The bulk of the new or incoming units around town are accessory dwelling units — backyard cottages and annexes. For a city short on lower-cost single-bedroom places to live, the new crop of ADUs are “really filling that gap,” Honma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pro-renter advocates unsuccessful\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While building more places for people to live is one part of the battle, others have tried to soften the impact on rents of existing housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, tenant rights and anti-poverty advocates mounted a campaign to push the city of Fresno to adopt a rent control ordinance. For a city whose most notable politico, Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Costa, lent his name to a state law that \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa%E2%80%93Hawkins_Rental_Housing_Act\">restricts local governments for enacting or expanding rent control laws\u003c/a>, it was a symbolic push.[aside postID=news_11955554 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630100-Van-Ness-MB-KQED-1020x453.jpg']Further south, activists in Delano were competing to see which town would be the first in the Central Valley to enact a permanent cap on rent hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither campaign was successful. Fresno’s city council \u003ca href=\"https://fresnoland.org/2023/06/28/frustrated-rent-control-advocates-say-fresno-leaders-arent-listening-but-the-fight-isnt-over/\">declined to include a rent stabilization program in its budget\u003c/a> for this fiscal year and elected leaders in Delano \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/delano-leaders-dodge-rent-control-agree-to-study-costs/article_635dc4e4-d297-11ed-b2fb-1b90089b6133.html\">agreed only to study the issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, many of these same advocacy organizations have been pushing a bill by state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/maria-elena-durazo-1953/\">María Elena Durazo\u003c/a> that would have, among other things, lowered a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/06/california-renters/\">statewide cap on annual rent increases\u003c/a> from 10% to a mere 5%. But that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/06/california-renters/\">provision was stripped out\u003c/a>, leaving only new rules that make it harder for landlords to evict tenants without cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A lack of affordable housing for Californians has increased inland rent prices to match coastal prices, removing large swaths of previously cheaper rental units.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1690318291,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/14082160/embed"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1062},"headData":{"title":"Some of California's 'Cheapest' Cities See the Biggest Rent Hikes | KQED","description":"A lack of affordable housing for Californians has increased inland rent prices to match coastal prices, removing large swaths of previously cheaper rental units.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/ben-christopher/\">Ben Christopher\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11956168/some-of-californias-cheapest-cities-see-the-biggest-rent-hikes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Inland cities including Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia and Riverside — once cheaper options than pricey places such as the Bay Area — are no longer refuges from California’s housing affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, the typical asking rent in these former bastions of relative affordability has exploded by as much as 40%, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">data from the real estate listings company Zillow\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s inland rent spike is yet another lasting effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in 2020, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2023/01/31/cities-pandemic-moving-trends\">dense metropolitan coast saw an outflux\u003c/a> of people, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/15/upshot/migrations-college-super-cities.html\">educated white-collar workers\u003c/a>, suddenly untethered from the office, packed their bags in search of cheaper and more socially distanced modes of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many smaller California towns, the surge of new residents competing for housing has placed new financial pressures on lower-income residents, upended local housing markets and, in some cases, shifted the politics around housing and affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/14082160/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"850\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Maria, just an hour up the 101 from Santa Barbara, the last three years have been a “perfect storm” for renters, said Victor Honma, who oversees housing vouchers across the region for the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town was awash in suburb-seeking homebuyers from Los Angeles, the Bay Area and nearby Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. The suddenly hot housing market persuaded many longtime local property owners to sell their rentals to the wave of new homebuyers, reducing the rental stock further. 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But Pelz said the higher cost of borrowing has only added to the woes of Kern County renters: Fewer people purchasing homes has meant more competition for the area’s remaining rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An inevitable consequence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jeff Tucker, an economist at Zillow, said the inland rental crunch is the inevitable result of California’s overall housing shortage, as the affordability crisis along the coast ripples outward. Cities in the Central Valley used to enjoy a healthy “affordability advantage” over coastal urban areas, he said. 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As of June 2023, that discount dropped to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south in Bakersfield, where renters used to pay roughly half of L.A. area tenants, on average, the difference has narrowed to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, that’s just a function of arithmetic. In both the Bakersfield and the Los Angeles metro areas, the typical rent has increased by a little more than $500 since the beginning of the pandemic. Because Kern County rents were much lower, $500 represents a larger percentage hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the average Bakersfield area resident, that $500 rent hike pinches a lot harder: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescountycalifornia,kerncountycalifornia/PST045222\">average income in Kern County is roughly $25,000\u003c/a>, according to the most recent Census data. In L.A. 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The bulk of the new or incoming units around town are accessory dwelling units — backyard cottages and annexes. For a city short on lower-cost single-bedroom places to live, the new crop of ADUs are “really filling that gap,” Honma said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pro-renter advocates unsuccessful\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While building more places for people to live is one part of the battle, others have tried to soften the impact on rents of existing housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, tenant rights and anti-poverty advocates mounted a campaign to push the city of Fresno to adopt a rent control ordinance. For a city whose most notable politico, Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Costa, lent his name to a state law that \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa%E2%80%93Hawkins_Rental_Housing_Act\">restricts local governments for enacting or expanding rent control laws\u003c/a>, it was a symbolic push.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11955554","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630100-Van-Ness-MB-KQED-1020x453.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Further south, activists in Delano were competing to see which town would be the first in the Central Valley to enact a permanent cap on rent hikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither campaign was successful. Fresno’s city council \u003ca href=\"https://fresnoland.org/2023/06/28/frustrated-rent-control-advocates-say-fresno-leaders-arent-listening-but-the-fight-isnt-over/\">declined to include a rent stabilization program in its budget\u003c/a> for this fiscal year and elected leaders in Delano \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/delano-leaders-dodge-rent-control-agree-to-study-costs/article_635dc4e4-d297-11ed-b2fb-1b90089b6133.html\">agreed only to study the issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, many of these same advocacy organizations have been pushing a bill by state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/maria-elena-durazo-1953/\">María Elena Durazo\u003c/a> that would have, among other things, lowered a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/06/california-renters/\">statewide cap on annual rent increases\u003c/a> from 10% to a mere 5%. But that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/06/california-renters/\">provision was stripped out\u003c/a>, leaving only new rules that make it harder for landlords to evict tenants without cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11956168/some-of-californias-cheapest-cities-see-the-biggest-rent-hikes","authors":["byline_news_11956168"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_5563","news_18538","news_30796","news_21238"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11956172","label":"source_news_11956168"},"news_11955299":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11955299","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11955299","score":null,"sort":[1689019720000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"probe-into-2022-attack-on-kern-county-pge-facility-hits-dead-end","title":"Probe Into 2022 Attack on Kern County PG&E Facility Hits Dead End","publishDate":1689019720,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Probe Into 2022 Attack on Kern County PG&E Facility Hits Dead End | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Investigators have hit a dead end in their investigation of a July 2022 incident in which gunfire caused nearly $6 million in damage to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pge\">PG&E\u003c/a> substation near Bakersfield. It’s one of a string of unsolved acts of vandalism targeting the utility’s equipment in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents KQED obtained under the California Public Records Act outline a probe by the Kern County Sheriff’s Office into the shooting at the Goose Lake substation, near the town of Wasco. The attack caused an outage that affected 1,100 customers, including gas stations and restaurants, at the busy interchange where State Route 46 crosses Interstate 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the sheriff’s investigation, those responsible for the incident cut a 4-inch hole in a chain-link fence surrounding the substation. Then, they fired 10 rounds from a shotgun and large-caliber handgun into two banks of transformers, puncturing a radiator and a tank filled with mineral oil used to insulate and cool the electrical equipment. The damaged tanks leaked about 5,000 gallons of oil onto the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hole in the fence lines up with the angles of the bullet holes in the equipment within the facility,” a sheriff’s deputy wrote in a department report. That discovery prompted the deputy to contact a colleague who works as the sheriff’s liaison with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of the shooting investigation are recounted in records released by the California Public Utilities Commission. In addition to a 29-page sheriff’s report, they include documents from the CPUC’s Safety and Enforcement Division and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County investigators could not identify suspects in the case or determine a motive for the attack. But their report notes that deputies and a PG&E worker, who arrived at the substation shortly after problems at the substation were reported, noticed a car abandoned about a quarter-mile away on Highway 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging electrical equipment connected to power lines.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E’s Goose Lake substation, near Wasco in Kern County, was attacked last July. A spokesperson for PG&E said the company has spent $2 million so far on ongoing repairs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Public Utilities Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A deputy who inspected the car, which had been stolen the day before the attack in the Kern County town of Shafter, found footprints that headed in the direction of the substation. But the tracks vanished after a short distance. Sheriff’s investigators were unable to connect either the car or the tracks to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about the case, a sheriff’s spokesperson said in an email late last month that the investigation “has been inactivated pending further leads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matt Nauman, spokesperson, PG&E\"]‘We have security measures in place, and we are constantly evaluating the security of all of our facilities. Our forecast is that the total cost will be approximately $5.9 million.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E emphasized in reply to KQED’s question that it takes its responsibility seriously to ensure safety around its electrical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have security measures in place, and we are constantly evaluating the security of all of our facilities,” said company spokesperson Matt Nauman in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nauman added that so far PG&E has spent $2 million on ongoing repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our forecast is that the total cost will be approximately $5.9 million,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is one of several that have targeted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891276/how-can-pge-navigate-rising-costs-extreme-weather-and-modernizing-the-grid\">PG&E’s electricity infrastructure\u003c/a> in the last year and comes amid an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891525/how-vulnerable-is-our-power-grid-2\">increase in attacks on power sites\u003c/a> throughout California and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the U.S. Department of Energy, California utilities reported a total of 31 incidents of vandalism to their property from Jan. 1, 2022, through March 31 of this year. Another 14 incidents were classified as actual physical attacks on facilities or “suspicious activity” meant to degrade power operations. That compares with just three such incidents reported statewide in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal data indicates that only a handful of the reported incidents, like the one in Kern County, have resulted in power outages.[aside postID=news_11943157 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Untitled_Artwork-1020x765.jpg']Two months after the Kern County incident, someone shot and damaged nine PG&E transformers in rural Butte County, south of Chico. In late February, PG&E told the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office that it had recently discovered a transformer damaged by gunfire near the Sutter Bypass, southwest of Yuba City. FBI officials have said the agency is aware of all three incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely publicized recent attack on power facilities in Northern California came to light in March when San José police arrested a man they say set off bombs that damaged a pair of PG&E substations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These incidents came nearly a decade after a sniper attack on a major PG&E transmission complex in South San José that caused serious damage. The April 2013 incident caused an estimated $15 million in damage, attracted national attention and prompted state legislation aimed at improving security for electricity infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"No suspects have been identified after gunfire caused $6 million in damage to a rural PG&E substation northwest of Bakersfield.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689019720,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":893},"headData":{"title":"Probe Into 2022 Attack on Kern County PG&E Facility Hits Dead End | KQED","description":"No suspects have been identified after gunfire caused $6 million in damage to a rural PG&E substation northwest of Bakersfield.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11955299/probe-into-2022-attack-on-kern-county-pge-facility-hits-dead-end","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Investigators have hit a dead end in their investigation of a July 2022 incident in which gunfire caused nearly $6 million in damage to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pge\">PG&E\u003c/a> substation near Bakersfield. It’s one of a string of unsolved acts of vandalism targeting the utility’s equipment in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents KQED obtained under the California Public Records Act outline a probe by the Kern County Sheriff’s Office into the shooting at the Goose Lake substation, near the town of Wasco. The attack caused an outage that affected 1,100 customers, including gas stations and restaurants, at the busy interchange where State Route 46 crosses Interstate 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the sheriff’s investigation, those responsible for the incident cut a 4-inch hole in a chain-link fence surrounding the substation. Then, they fired 10 rounds from a shotgun and large-caliber handgun into two banks of transformers, puncturing a radiator and a tank filled with mineral oil used to insulate and cool the electrical equipment. The damaged tanks leaked about 5,000 gallons of oil onto the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hole in the fence lines up with the angles of the bullet holes in the equipment within the facility,” a sheriff’s deputy wrote in a department report. That discovery prompted the deputy to contact a colleague who works as the sheriff’s liaison with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of the shooting investigation are recounted in records released by the California Public Utilities Commission. In addition to a 29-page sheriff’s report, they include documents from the CPUC’s Safety and Enforcement Division and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County investigators could not identify suspects in the case or determine a motive for the attack. But their report notes that deputies and a PG&E worker, who arrived at the substation shortly after problems at the substation were reported, noticed a car abandoned about a quarter-mile away on Highway 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging electrical equipment connected to power lines.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E’s Goose Lake substation, near Wasco in Kern County, was attacked last July. A spokesperson for PG&E said the company has spent $2 million so far on ongoing repairs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Public Utilities Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A deputy who inspected the car, which had been stolen the day before the attack in the Kern County town of Shafter, found footprints that headed in the direction of the substation. But the tracks vanished after a short distance. Sheriff’s investigators were unable to connect either the car or the tracks to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about the case, a sheriff’s spokesperson said in an email late last month that the investigation “has been inactivated pending further leads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We have security measures in place, and we are constantly evaluating the security of all of our facilities. Our forecast is that the total cost will be approximately $5.9 million.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Matt Nauman, spokesperson, PG&E","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E emphasized in reply to KQED’s question that it takes its responsibility seriously to ensure safety around its electrical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have security measures in place, and we are constantly evaluating the security of all of our facilities,” said company spokesperson Matt Nauman in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nauman added that so far PG&E has spent $2 million on ongoing repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our forecast is that the total cost will be approximately $5.9 million,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is one of several that have targeted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891276/how-can-pge-navigate-rising-costs-extreme-weather-and-modernizing-the-grid\">PG&E’s electricity infrastructure\u003c/a> in the last year and comes amid an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891525/how-vulnerable-is-our-power-grid-2\">increase in attacks on power sites\u003c/a> throughout California and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the U.S. Department of Energy, California utilities reported a total of 31 incidents of vandalism to their property from Jan. 1, 2022, through March 31 of this year. Another 14 incidents were classified as actual physical attacks on facilities or “suspicious activity” meant to degrade power operations. That compares with just three such incidents reported statewide in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal data indicates that only a handful of the reported incidents, like the one in Kern County, have resulted in power outages.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11943157","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Untitled_Artwork-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two months after the Kern County incident, someone shot and damaged nine PG&E transformers in rural Butte County, south of Chico. In late February, PG&E told the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office that it had recently discovered a transformer damaged by gunfire near the Sutter Bypass, southwest of Yuba City. FBI officials have said the agency is aware of all three incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely publicized recent attack on power facilities in Northern California came to light in March when San José police arrested a man they say set off bombs that damaged a pair of PG&E substations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These incidents came nearly a decade after a sniper attack on a major PG&E transmission complex in South San José that caused serious damage. The April 2013 incident caused an estimated $15 million in damage, attracted national attention and prompted state legislation aimed at improving security for electricity infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11955299/probe-into-2022-attack-on-kern-county-pge-facility-hits-dead-end","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8"],"tags":["news_5563","news_18538","news_1066","news_20023","news_425","news_27626","news_20320","news_140","news_18541","news_32901","news_32902"],"featImg":"news_11955154","label":"news"},"news_11929729":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11929729","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11929729","score":null,"sort":[1666400439000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"overlooked-how-the-central-valley-became-californias-most-fiercely-contested-political-turf","title":"'Overlooked': How the Central Valley Became California's Most Fiercely Contested Political Turf","publishDate":1666400439,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On an already hot Saturday morning in east Bakersfield, state Assembly candidate Leticia Perez stands at the front of the electrical workers’ local union hall, working a crowd of fellow Democrats ready to knock on doors and talk to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the thrust of Perez’s message has bipartisan appeal. Bakersfield is not like the rest of California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people outside this community think they know us. They don’t,” said Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, voters are being told what to do in millions of dollars in TV ads produced by high-powered consultants from Sacramento and Washington, D.C. They’re being interviewed by national reporters parachuting in to take the pulse of a pivotal area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union hall is less than a mile from Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace, the iconic country and western bar that for many symbolizes the Dust Bowl origins of Bakersfield. But looking at the assembled volunteers, Perez describes a region and political moment that seem far removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see my Indian brothers and sisters in the back, and I see my Black familia here today. I see a few Latinos … I got a lot of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/backroads/home-of-the-okies-and-merle-haggard/103-0f251d5f-698a-4ea1-8022-a83eca03a476\">Okie\u003c/a> brothers and sisters here, too, in the house!” she said, as the applause grew. “That’s right! Kern County is what we say it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that’s true is a question at the heart of three overlapping toss-up elections on November 8 that make this stretch of the southern Central Valley — nearly the size of Connecticut — among the most competitive pieces of political turf in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-22\">congressional race\u003c/a> between Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao and Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/rudy-salas-1977/\">Assemblymember Rudy Salas\u003c/a>, now the second-most expensive House contest in the country and one that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/analyzing-key-midterm-races-that-could-decide-control-of-the-house\">could help determine which party controls the next Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the contest between \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/melissa-hurtado-1988/\">state Sen. Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/state-senate/senate-races/#hot-district-16\">widely considered to be the most endangered Democratic incumbent\u003c/a> in the Legislature, and political\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>newcomer David Shepard, the Republican scion of a Tulare County farming family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929774\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy.jpg\" alt='A young Latina woman looks on with a poster behind her that says \"David Valadao for Congress\"' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer sits at the Republican National Committee office in Bakersfield during a training for door-to-door canvassing on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/state-assembly/assembly-races/#hot-district-35\">face-off for the local Assembly seat\u003c/a> between \u003ca href=\"https://www.leticiaperez.org/\">Perez\u003c/a> and fellow Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://www.drjasmeetbains.com/\">Jasmeet Bains\u003c/a>, who have attracted the financial backing of the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1454778\">oil industry\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1447991&view=received\">state doctors lobby\u003c/a>, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of all three races will be determined by voters in east Bakersfield, historically the city’s poorer, Latino, less politically powerful side, as well as voters in the agricultural towns that dot the road north to Fresno: Shafter, Delano, McFarland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Kern County has California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/12/kern-county-homicide-rate-gangs/\">highest homicide rate\u003c/a>. It is often blanketed with \u003ca href=\"https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/states/california/kern\">noxious air\u003c/a>. The share of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/08/california-incarceration-rates-rural/\">population behind bars\u003c/a> is among the highest in the state and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/california/2022/rankings/kern/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot\">public health numbers\u003c/a> are among the lowest. Choosing effective representatives in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony of this sudden surge of outside attention on an area so often overshadowed and beset by so many problems is not lost on some residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel as if there are two perceptions of California: It’s either Northern California or Southern California,” said Manpreet Kaur, a 29-year-old Democrat running for Bakersfield City Council. “This entire Central Valley region tends to be overlooked. But this is where I think you find the hardest-working people with grit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans and Democrats alike repeat the line that Kern County — the center of the state’s agricultural and oil industries — feeds and fuels California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And yet we’re treated like a stepchild,” said Republican consultant Cathy Abernathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a place that defies the expectations and political rules of thumb that govern elections across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area has sent Valadao to Congress six times despite \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-22\">Democrats outnumbering Republicans by double digits\u003c/a>. While\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the electorate is overwhelmingly Latino, they’re not \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geography/\">necessarily like the liberal-leaning Latino voters\u003c/a> on the coast.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Manpreet Kaur, Democratic candidate for Bakersfield City Council\"]'I feel as if there are two perceptions of California: It's either Northern California or Southern California. This entire Central Valley region tends to be overlooked. But this is where I think you find the hardest-working people with grit.'[/pullquote]There’s “the myth that there is going to be change because of the demographic numbers — that demographics is destiny. That’s not necessarily the case,” said Ivy Cargile, political science professor at California State University, Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And partisan labels don’t determine where a candidate stands on issues as much as they do elsewhere in the state. Valadao was one of just 10 Republicans to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. Salas and Hurtado regularly irk the Democratic Party’s liberal base. The Central Valley is home to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geography/\">highest number of conservative Democrats in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be an oxymoron in much of California, but at the union hall, Perez embraces the description. “We like to say we have a purple center. We’re merging and changing and evolving,” she said. “We’re a melting pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 'Publishers Clearing House guy'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Knocking on doors in a subdivision on the southern outskirts of Bakersfield last Saturday, Salas seems to enjoy the personal touch of campaigning — even if the going is a little slower than the average volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because voters who recognize him will invite him in for a beer, some barbeque or pan dulce, and he always accepts, he said. Earlier this month, however, he \u003ca href=\"https://gvwire.com/2022/10/12/with-eyes-of-nation-watching-salas-ducks-out-of-tv-debate-vs-valadao/\">reneged on an invitation to a televised debate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, election messaging has taken on a rote consistency: Democrats accuse Republicans of wanting to end the right to an abortion. Republicans blame Democrats for persistent inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those arguments are familiar to Bakersfield voters, Salas says his congressional race is going to be won or lost on personal connections in this close-knit community — that, and who has delivered the most to the district while in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about putting food on the table. It’s about providing opportunities for their kids and for themselves,” he said. “I’m kind of like that Publishers Clearing House guy. I keep bringing taxpayers' money back into the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salas is exaggerating, but only a little. This month, he has delivered oversized checks to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq99NrR9Bu8\">hospital\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biy6m1pKrGQ\">community college\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/salas-announces-500k-for-shepower-leadership-academy/article_cadc502e-44f6-11ed-96d7-d70379bbe2a0.html\">local nonprofit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently that’s a tried-and-true political tactic. The day before Salas went canvassing, Hurtado celebrated new funding she helped secure to repair the Friant-Kern Canal. On prominent display: a supersized check for $100 million with Hurtado’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Salas and Hurtado aren’t the only ones showering the area in cash this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929776\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks under a fold-up tent that has \"Melissa Hurtado, Senator, 14th District\" written on it.' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Melissa Hurtado speaks at a press conference where she presented a $100 million check to repair the Friant-Kern Canal near Terra Bella on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At $14.5 million and counting, the 22nd District is the second largest money magnet for outside political spending of any House race in the country. Salas has raised $2.2 million, while Valadao has brought in $3.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao has survived most prior Democratic challenges (he lost the seat in 2018, but returned two years later) by relying on white conservatives turning out in higher numbers than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/race-and-voting-in-california/\">Democratic-leaning Latinos\u003c/a> and by carving out a moderate reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state’s redistricting shaved off the conservative north end of the district, Valadao’s home turf, and added more of Kern County, which is more Latino and Democratic — and less familiar with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Salas wins, he would be the first Latino member of Congress in the Central Valley, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/opinion-es/article253547814.html\">six Valley counties\u003c/a> having a Latino majority. Nearly 60% of the congressional district’s voters are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao, through his spokesperson, declined to be interviewed for this story. But the national GOP establishment — at least those portions at peace with his impeachment vote — are riding to his rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, former Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/former-vp-mike-pence-in-fresno-for-valadao-campaign/\">Mike Pence showed up in Fresno\u003c/a> to make a pitch for Valadao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the Republican National Committee opened a Hispanic Community Center in a south Bakersfield strip mall as part of a nationwide effort to capitalize on \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/politics/latino-voters-texas-15th/index.html\">Democratic weakness in Latino-majority districts in Texas and Florida\u003c/a> in the 2020 election. But it’s also an acknowledgement that Valadao won’t win unless he can appeal directly to the district’s majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A demographic and political shift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a Friday evening, roughly two dozen elected officials and other community leaders gathered in McFarland, a town 25 miles north of Bakersfield, to talk about crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days earlier, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/delano-drive-by-shooting-one-man-killed-two-victims-airlifted/12312949/\">two people were killed\u003c/a> in a drive-by shooting in nearby Delano. Rumors about an impending gang war rippled through the community. Parents kept their kids out of school, and the school district canceled a much-anticipated high school homecoming football game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting was organized by Assembly candidate Bains, a family doctor backed by the California Medical Association. She says she opted to run against a well-established politician, even as she continues to see patients, to try to address crime and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What prescription can I write that’s going to clear the bad air quality that my community sees? What prescription can I write that’s going to increase access to quality water? What prescription can I write to address domestic abuse?” she said. “I can treat the patient in my clinic, but what can I do once they leave my clinic?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not a campaign event, the meeting did highlight a few of Bains’ selling points. One is her appeal to bipartisanship. Perez has the support of the Kern County Democratic Party, whose chairperson is Perez’s campaign manager. Bains, independent of the party establishment, may be the more likely option for GOP-leaning voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Couch, a Kern County supervisor and registered Republican, is among them. “Hey, Jasmeet, have I formally endorsed you?” he asked Bains after the meeting. “I can be for or against you, whatever helps you the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contest between Bains and Perez, however, is about more than competing Democratic factions. It also reflects an inflection point as the region’s political representation begins to catch up with the growing ethnic diversity of its population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Perez became the first Latina ever elected to the Board of Supervisors in Kern County, which is 56% Latino. And if Bains is elected, she would be the first Sikh and the first South Asian woman to serve in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy.jpg\" alt=\"a white man sites to the right of an Indian woman with another woman sitting to the left as they sit behind a table and listen to a man speak.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Assembly candidate Jasmeet Bains hosts a roundtable with local leaders in the town of McFarland after an uptick in gang-related violence in the community on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The changing leadership is also one of politics. Bakersfield, where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/california-housing-bakersfield.html\">population grew faster than that of any of the state’s most populous cities in 2020\u003c/a>, underwent a historic redistricting this year — one that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/final-public-hearing-regarding-ward-redistricting/\">created three new Latino-majority city council districts and united the city’s Sikh and Punjabi\u003c/a> populations in one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaur, the city council candidate, was part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/punjabi-community-and-other-community-members-celebrate-new-approved-redistricting-map\">local redistricting effort\u003c/a> that she hopes will bolster her community’s electoral voice: “It’s so important to keep our community together, because we’ve literally been divided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she wins, she would be the first member of the city’s sizable Punjabi population to serve on the council, and she would give Democrats a majority on the body for the first time in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bakersfield’s Punjabi population is not the only one on the political ascent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Latino population has been growing since the early 1980s, when efforts to recruit low-wage labor launched an ongoing wave of immigration. In 2020, Latinos surpassed 50% of residents, making Bakersfield the fifth-largest \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/people-of-hispanic-origin-become-majority-in-kern-county-in-2020-census/article_d37012d2-fbb6-11eb-b08c-830148e50386.html\">majority-Latino city\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo Rodriguez, founder and executive director of Communities for a New California Education Fund, said he saw this shift firsthand coming of age in Bakersfield. “When I was growing up, there was never a Latino-majority anything … It changes the basic math. Now we finally have to be taken into account,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isn’t an automatic boon for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignasio Castillo, a life-long southeast Bakersfield resident and student-body vice president at California State University, Bakersfield, says he sees a political tension in the city’s Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of Latinos do have a conservative mindset a lot of the time,” he said, particularly on issues like abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. But as part of a disproportionately lower-income community, many voters are also inclined to support “change for your communities — and a lot of that is progressive values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonifacio Gurrola, a 44-year-old Navy veteran and fuel-truck driver who lives on the far south end of the city, said he wants to see change, but not the progressive kind. He vowed to vote “anything Republican to get California back to normal. If not, we’ll probably be, like some people, moving out of state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurrola said his parents brought him to the country as a child illegally. But border security, along with inflation and crime, remain his top concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says there’s “contention” between Kern’s growing nonwhite populations and those who have historically controlled local politics, mostly Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have is a small group of people who do not want to let go of power, and they do not represent the whole of Kern County,” Perez said, referring to longtime Republican leaders including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and state Sen. Shannon Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the redistricting could turn the tide for the county’s Latino and Sikh communities seeking representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a broader sense that things are more fair now, that we have a fair shot and it just comes down to electing people,” said Bob Alvarez, former chief of staff to Dean Florez,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the first Latino to represent the Central Valley in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A blurring of red and blue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans also acknowledge the changing face of the region. And they see it as an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that Republicans in general have done a good job reaching those voters,” said Shepard, the state Senate candidate, whose great-grandfather immigrated from Mexico. “That is going to change with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at Latinos as being taken advantage of by the Democratic Party,” he said at a fundraiser last week for Republican candidates. “(Democrats) pretend like they’re going to be there for you, but then they’re going to turn around and stab you in the back, and your kids are going to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His opponent is Hurtado, a Fresno native and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/home/#cm-ld-landing__ideology\">the Senate’s most moderate Democrat\u003c/a> who earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/politics/your-local-elections/melissa-hurtado-pulls-out-of-17-news-debate-with-david-shepard\">backed out at the last minute from a scheduled debate\u003c/a> on KGET, the local NBC affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has occasionally irked her more liberal fellow party members for her votes on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/inside-california-capitol/2019/09/last-minute-switch-serves-california-oil-company-environmentalists-cry-foul/\">oil industry regulations\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article251039264.html\">public health\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/california-farm-bureau-rally-against-ab-616\">agricultural\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/17239-california-would-dissolve-state-water-board-under-new-bill\">water\u003c/a> policy. But there’s a sensible political logic behind Hurtado’s voting record. The oil industry alone \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2021/03/23/kern-county-oil-and-the-fight-to-keep-a-blue-collar-california/?sh=57a1acc6a3a8\">employs 1 in 7 jobs in Kern County\u003c/a>, and agriculture employs even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview at the Padre Hotel, an eight-story landmark in downtown Bakersfield, she told CalMatters that though she wants to learn more about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/10/newsom-gas-rebate-special-session/\">proposal to tax the “windfall profits” of California oil companies\u003c/a>, she isn’t enthusiastic about the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A tax is never good — not good — for Valley families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that position puts her out of step with most Democrats, so be it, she said. “Your party doesn’t really make a difference here,” she said. “You have Democrats that vote for Republicans if they believe in them, and you have Republicans who vote for Democrats if they believe in them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hurtado’s stance has cost her some traditional Democratic allies. She was not invited to the county party’s\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Saturday canvassing event, a snub she attributed in part to her endorsement of Bains over the party-backed Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates for safe drinking water have turned against the incumbent for her call to dissolve the state’s Water Resources Control Board\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>and replace it with a commission of experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may seem a little extreme, but it’s best to start somewhere and call it out then to have status quo, because status quo is not working for folks,” Hurtado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janaki Anagha at the Community Water Center, a statewide advocacy group, called the proposal “bananas,” and said her organization “vehemently” opposes it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is one of our only ways to really ensure that there’s a future in any way for some of these communities that deal with water quality and quantity issues,” Anagha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado has also alienated many of the local unions that would otherwise be the natural allies of a Democrat. In September, the Building Trades Council of Kern, Inyo and Mono counties endorsed Shepard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon Savory, executive director of the Fresno-Madera-Tulare-Kings Central Labor Council, said he wasn’t surprised. Organized labor was instrumental in helping Hurtado beat an incumbent Republican in 2018, but he said Hurtado has not repaid the favor and “just became a symbol of how to walk away from your allies and not have labor’s back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Savory’s group has not taken an official position in this year’s race, he said: “I hope she loses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado shrugged off the disapproval; she has backing from some unions. She also has the support of fellow Senate Democrats, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CjyN8nev7l3/\">were in town\u003c/a> the same day as the local party canvass to help her. They and party groups have \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1414453&view=general\">contributed $1.9 million\u003c/a>. Independent political groups have spent another $1.4 million on her campaign, while Shepard has raised only roughly $900,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard said he welcomes the fight. “It’s an honor to challenge them,” he said. “I’m from the Central Valley, so I mean, we’ve got enough cowboy in us to where we don’t care who it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"East Bakersfield may be the most fiercely fought-over part of the state for the November 8 election, with key races for the US House and the state Legislature intersecting in the changing, mostly Latino area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1666400439,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":78,"wordCount":3271},"headData":{"title":"'Overlooked': How the Central Valley Became California's Most Fiercely Contested Political Turf | KQED","description":"East Bakersfield may be the most fiercely fought-over part of the state for the November 8 election, with key races for the US House and the state Legislature intersecting in the changing, mostly Latino area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11929729 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11929729","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/10/21/overlooked-how-the-central-valley-became-californias-most-fiercely-contested-political-turf/","disqusTitle":"'Overlooked': How the Central Valley Became California's Most Fiercely Contested Political Turf","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/ben-christopher/\">Ben Christopher\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/ariel-gans/\">Ariel Gans\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11929729/overlooked-how-the-central-valley-became-californias-most-fiercely-contested-political-turf","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On an already hot Saturday morning in east Bakersfield, state Assembly candidate Leticia Perez stands at the front of the electrical workers’ local union hall, working a crowd of fellow Democrats ready to knock on doors and talk to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the thrust of Perez’s message has bipartisan appeal. Bakersfield is not like the rest of California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people outside this community think they know us. They don’t,” said Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, voters are being told what to do in millions of dollars in TV ads produced by high-powered consultants from Sacramento and Washington, D.C. They’re being interviewed by national reporters parachuting in to take the pulse of a pivotal area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union hall is less than a mile from Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace, the iconic country and western bar that for many symbolizes the Dust Bowl origins of Bakersfield. But looking at the assembled volunteers, Perez describes a region and political moment that seem far removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see my Indian brothers and sisters in the back, and I see my Black familia here today. I see a few Latinos … I got a lot of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/backroads/home-of-the-okies-and-merle-haggard/103-0f251d5f-698a-4ea1-8022-a83eca03a476\">Okie\u003c/a> brothers and sisters here, too, in the house!” she said, as the applause grew. “That’s right! Kern County is what we say it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that’s true is a question at the heart of three overlapping toss-up elections on November 8 that make this stretch of the southern Central Valley — nearly the size of Connecticut — among the most competitive pieces of political turf in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-22\">congressional race\u003c/a> between Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao and Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/rudy-salas-1977/\">Assemblymember Rudy Salas\u003c/a>, now the second-most expensive House contest in the country and one that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/analyzing-key-midterm-races-that-could-decide-control-of-the-house\">could help determine which party controls the next Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the contest between \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/melissa-hurtado-1988/\">state Sen. Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/state-senate/senate-races/#hot-district-16\">widely considered to be the most endangered Democratic incumbent\u003c/a> in the Legislature, and political\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>newcomer David Shepard, the Republican scion of a Tulare County farming family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929774\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy.jpg\" alt='A young Latina woman looks on with a poster behind her that says \"David Valadao for Congress\"' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_09-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer sits at the Republican National Committee office in Bakersfield during a training for door-to-door canvassing on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/state-assembly/assembly-races/#hot-district-35\">face-off for the local Assembly seat\u003c/a> between \u003ca href=\"https://www.leticiaperez.org/\">Perez\u003c/a> and fellow Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://www.drjasmeetbains.com/\">Jasmeet Bains\u003c/a>, who have attracted the financial backing of the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1454778\">oil industry\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1447991&view=received\">state doctors lobby\u003c/a>, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of all three races will be determined by voters in east Bakersfield, historically the city’s poorer, Latino, less politically powerful side, as well as voters in the agricultural towns that dot the road north to Fresno: Shafter, Delano, McFarland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Kern County has California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/12/kern-county-homicide-rate-gangs/\">highest homicide rate\u003c/a>. It is often blanketed with \u003ca href=\"https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/states/california/kern\">noxious air\u003c/a>. The share of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/08/california-incarceration-rates-rural/\">population behind bars\u003c/a> is among the highest in the state and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/california/2022/rankings/kern/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot\">public health numbers\u003c/a> are among the lowest. Choosing effective representatives in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony of this sudden surge of outside attention on an area so often overshadowed and beset by so many problems is not lost on some residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel as if there are two perceptions of California: It’s either Northern California or Southern California,” said Manpreet Kaur, a 29-year-old Democrat running for Bakersfield City Council. “This entire Central Valley region tends to be overlooked. But this is where I think you find the hardest-working people with grit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans and Democrats alike repeat the line that Kern County — the center of the state’s agricultural and oil industries — feeds and fuels California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And yet we’re treated like a stepchild,” said Republican consultant Cathy Abernathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a place that defies the expectations and political rules of thumb that govern elections across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This area has sent Valadao to Congress six times despite \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/us-house/house-races/#hot-district-22\">Democrats outnumbering Republicans by double digits\u003c/a>. While\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the electorate is overwhelmingly Latino, they’re not \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geography/\">necessarily like the liberal-leaning Latino voters\u003c/a> on the coast.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I feel as if there are two perceptions of California: It's either Northern California or Southern California. This entire Central Valley region tends to be overlooked. But this is where I think you find the hardest-working people with grit.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Manpreet Kaur, Democratic candidate for Bakersfield City Council","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There’s “the myth that there is going to be change because of the demographic numbers — that demographics is destiny. That’s not necessarily the case,” said Ivy Cargile, political science professor at California State University, Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And partisan labels don’t determine where a candidate stands on issues as much as they do elsewhere in the state. Valadao was one of just 10 Republicans to vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. Salas and Hurtado regularly irk the Democratic Party’s liberal base. The Central Valley is home to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geography/\">highest number of conservative Democrats in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be an oxymoron in much of California, but at the union hall, Perez embraces the description. “We like to say we have a purple center. We’re merging and changing and evolving,” she said. “We’re a melting pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 'Publishers Clearing House guy'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Knocking on doors in a subdivision on the southern outskirts of Bakersfield last Saturday, Salas seems to enjoy the personal touch of campaigning — even if the going is a little slower than the average volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because voters who recognize him will invite him in for a beer, some barbeque or pan dulce, and he always accepts, he said. Earlier this month, however, he \u003ca href=\"https://gvwire.com/2022/10/12/with-eyes-of-nation-watching-salas-ducks-out-of-tv-debate-vs-valadao/\">reneged on an invitation to a televised debate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, election messaging has taken on a rote consistency: Democrats accuse Republicans of wanting to end the right to an abortion. Republicans blame Democrats for persistent inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those arguments are familiar to Bakersfield voters, Salas says his congressional race is going to be won or lost on personal connections in this close-knit community — that, and who has delivered the most to the district while in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about putting food on the table. It’s about providing opportunities for their kids and for themselves,” he said. “I’m kind of like that Publishers Clearing House guy. I keep bringing taxpayers' money back into the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salas is exaggerating, but only a little. This month, he has delivered oversized checks to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq99NrR9Bu8\">hospital\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biy6m1pKrGQ\">community college\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/salas-announces-500k-for-shepower-leadership-academy/article_cadc502e-44f6-11ed-96d7-d70379bbe2a0.html\">local nonprofit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently that’s a tried-and-true political tactic. The day before Salas went canvassing, Hurtado celebrated new funding she helped secure to repair the Friant-Kern Canal. On prominent display: a supersized check for $100 million with Hurtado’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Salas and Hurtado aren’t the only ones showering the area in cash this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929776\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks under a fold-up tent that has \"Melissa Hurtado, Senator, 14th District\" written on it.' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Melissa Hurtado speaks at a press conference where she presented a $100 million check to repair the Friant-Kern Canal near Terra Bella on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At $14.5 million and counting, the 22nd District is the second largest money magnet for outside political spending of any House race in the country. Salas has raised $2.2 million, while Valadao has brought in $3.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao has survived most prior Democratic challenges (he lost the seat in 2018, but returned two years later) by relying on white conservatives turning out in higher numbers than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/race-and-voting-in-california/\">Democratic-leaning Latinos\u003c/a> and by carving out a moderate reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state’s redistricting shaved off the conservative north end of the district, Valadao’s home turf, and added more of Kern County, which is more Latino and Democratic — and less familiar with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Salas wins, he would be the first Latino member of Congress in the Central Valley, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/opinion-es/article253547814.html\">six Valley counties\u003c/a> having a Latino majority. Nearly 60% of the congressional district’s voters are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao, through his spokesperson, declined to be interviewed for this story. But the national GOP establishment — at least those portions at peace with his impeachment vote — are riding to his rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, former Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/former-vp-mike-pence-in-fresno-for-valadao-campaign/\">Mike Pence showed up in Fresno\u003c/a> to make a pitch for Valadao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the Republican National Committee opened a Hispanic Community Center in a south Bakersfield strip mall as part of a nationwide effort to capitalize on \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/politics/latino-voters-texas-15th/index.html\">Democratic weakness in Latino-majority districts in Texas and Florida\u003c/a> in the 2020 election. But it’s also an acknowledgement that Valadao won’t win unless he can appeal directly to the district’s majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A demographic and political shift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a Friday evening, roughly two dozen elected officials and other community leaders gathered in McFarland, a town 25 miles north of Bakersfield, to talk about crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days earlier, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/delano-drive-by-shooting-one-man-killed-two-victims-airlifted/12312949/\">two people were killed\u003c/a> in a drive-by shooting in nearby Delano. Rumors about an impending gang war rippled through the community. Parents kept their kids out of school, and the school district canceled a much-anticipated high school homecoming football game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting was organized by Assembly candidate Bains, a family doctor backed by the California Medical Association. She says she opted to run against a well-established politician, even as she continues to see patients, to try to address crime and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What prescription can I write that’s going to clear the bad air quality that my community sees? What prescription can I write that’s going to increase access to quality water? What prescription can I write to address domestic abuse?” she said. “I can treat the patient in my clinic, but what can I do once they leave my clinic?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not a campaign event, the meeting did highlight a few of Bains’ selling points. One is her appeal to bipartisanship. Perez has the support of the Kern County Democratic Party, whose chairperson is Perez’s campaign manager. Bains, independent of the party establishment, may be the more likely option for GOP-leaning voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Couch, a Kern County supervisor and registered Republican, is among them. “Hey, Jasmeet, have I formally endorsed you?” he asked Bains after the meeting. “I can be for or against you, whatever helps you the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contest between Bains and Perez, however, is about more than competing Democratic factions. It also reflects an inflection point as the region’s political representation begins to catch up with the growing ethnic diversity of its population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Perez became the first Latina ever elected to the Board of Supervisors in Kern County, which is 56% Latino. And if Bains is elected, she would be the first Sikh and the first South Asian woman to serve in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11929778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy.jpg\" alt=\"a white man sites to the right of an Indian woman with another woman sitting to the left as they sit behind a table and listen to a man speak.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/101922_Bakersfield_Election_LV_CM_21-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Assembly candidate Jasmeet Bains hosts a roundtable with local leaders in the town of McFarland after an uptick in gang-related violence in the community on Oct. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters-CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The changing leadership is also one of politics. Bakersfield, where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/california-housing-bakersfield.html\">population grew faster than that of any of the state’s most populous cities in 2020\u003c/a>, underwent a historic redistricting this year — one that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/final-public-hearing-regarding-ward-redistricting/\">created three new Latino-majority city council districts and united the city’s Sikh and Punjabi\u003c/a> populations in one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaur, the city council candidate, was part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/punjabi-community-and-other-community-members-celebrate-new-approved-redistricting-map\">local redistricting effort\u003c/a> that she hopes will bolster her community’s electoral voice: “It’s so important to keep our community together, because we’ve literally been divided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she wins, she would be the first member of the city’s sizable Punjabi population to serve on the council, and she would give Democrats a majority on the body for the first time in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bakersfield’s Punjabi population is not the only one on the political ascent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Latino population has been growing since the early 1980s, when efforts to recruit low-wage labor launched an ongoing wave of immigration. In 2020, Latinos surpassed 50% of residents, making Bakersfield the fifth-largest \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfield.com/news/people-of-hispanic-origin-become-majority-in-kern-county-in-2020-census/article_d37012d2-fbb6-11eb-b08c-830148e50386.html\">majority-Latino city\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pablo Rodriguez, founder and executive director of Communities for a New California Education Fund, said he saw this shift firsthand coming of age in Bakersfield. “When I was growing up, there was never a Latino-majority anything … It changes the basic math. Now we finally have to be taken into account,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isn’t an automatic boon for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignasio Castillo, a life-long southeast Bakersfield resident and student-body vice president at California State University, Bakersfield, says he sees a political tension in the city’s Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of Latinos do have a conservative mindset a lot of the time,” he said, particularly on issues like abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. But as part of a disproportionately lower-income community, many voters are also inclined to support “change for your communities — and a lot of that is progressive values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonifacio Gurrola, a 44-year-old Navy veteran and fuel-truck driver who lives on the far south end of the city, said he wants to see change, but not the progressive kind. He vowed to vote “anything Republican to get California back to normal. If not, we’ll probably be, like some people, moving out of state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurrola said his parents brought him to the country as a child illegally. But border security, along with inflation and crime, remain his top concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says there’s “contention” between Kern’s growing nonwhite populations and those who have historically controlled local politics, mostly Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have is a small group of people who do not want to let go of power, and they do not represent the whole of Kern County,” Perez said, referring to longtime Republican leaders including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and state Sen. Shannon Grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the redistricting could turn the tide for the county’s Latino and Sikh communities seeking representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a broader sense that things are more fair now, that we have a fair shot and it just comes down to electing people,” said Bob Alvarez, former chief of staff to Dean Florez,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the first Latino to represent the Central Valley in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A blurring of red and blue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans also acknowledge the changing face of the region. And they see it as an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that Republicans in general have done a good job reaching those voters,” said Shepard, the state Senate candidate, whose great-grandfather immigrated from Mexico. “That is going to change with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at Latinos as being taken advantage of by the Democratic Party,” he said at a fundraiser last week for Republican candidates. “(Democrats) pretend like they’re going to be there for you, but then they’re going to turn around and stab you in the back, and your kids are going to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His opponent is Hurtado, a Fresno native and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/home/#cm-ld-landing__ideology\">the Senate’s most moderate Democrat\u003c/a> who earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/politics/your-local-elections/melissa-hurtado-pulls-out-of-17-news-debate-with-david-shepard\">backed out at the last minute from a scheduled debate\u003c/a> on KGET, the local NBC affiliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has occasionally irked her more liberal fellow party members for her votes on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/inside-california-capitol/2019/09/last-minute-switch-serves-california-oil-company-environmentalists-cry-foul/\">oil industry regulations\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article251039264.html\">public health\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/california-farm-bureau-rally-against-ab-616\">agricultural\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/17239-california-would-dissolve-state-water-board-under-new-bill\">water\u003c/a> policy. But there’s a sensible political logic behind Hurtado’s voting record. The oil industry alone \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2021/03/23/kern-county-oil-and-the-fight-to-keep-a-blue-collar-california/?sh=57a1acc6a3a8\">employs 1 in 7 jobs in Kern County\u003c/a>, and agriculture employs even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview at the Padre Hotel, an eight-story landmark in downtown Bakersfield, she told CalMatters that though she wants to learn more about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/10/newsom-gas-rebate-special-session/\">proposal to tax the “windfall profits” of California oil companies\u003c/a>, she isn’t enthusiastic about the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A tax is never good — not good — for Valley families,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that position puts her out of step with most Democrats, so be it, she said. “Your party doesn’t really make a difference here,” she said. “You have Democrats that vote for Republicans if they believe in them, and you have Republicans who vote for Democrats if they believe in them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hurtado’s stance has cost her some traditional Democratic allies. She was not invited to the county party’s\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Saturday canvassing event, a snub she attributed in part to her endorsement of Bains over the party-backed Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates for safe drinking water have turned against the incumbent for her call to dissolve the state’s Water Resources Control Board\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>and replace it with a commission of experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may seem a little extreme, but it’s best to start somewhere and call it out then to have status quo, because status quo is not working for folks,” Hurtado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janaki Anagha at the Community Water Center, a statewide advocacy group, called the proposal “bananas,” and said her organization “vehemently” opposes it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is one of our only ways to really ensure that there’s a future in any way for some of these communities that deal with water quality and quantity issues,” Anagha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado has also alienated many of the local unions that would otherwise be the natural allies of a Democrat. In September, the Building Trades Council of Kern, Inyo and Mono counties endorsed Shepard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillon Savory, executive director of the Fresno-Madera-Tulare-Kings Central Labor Council, said he wasn’t surprised. Organized labor was instrumental in helping Hurtado beat an incumbent Republican in 2018, but he said Hurtado has not repaid the favor and “just became a symbol of how to walk away from your allies and not have labor’s back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Savory’s group has not taken an official position in this year’s race, he said: “I hope she loses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado shrugged off the disapproval; she has backing from some unions. She also has the support of fellow Senate Democrats, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CjyN8nev7l3/\">were in town\u003c/a> the same day as the local party canvass to help her. They and party groups have \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1414453&view=general\">contributed $1.9 million\u003c/a>. Independent political groups have spent another $1.4 million on her campaign, while Shepard has raised only roughly $900,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard said he welcomes the fight. “It’s an honor to challenge them,” he said. “I’m from the Central Valley, so I mean, we’ve got enough cowboy in us to where we don’t care who it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11929729/overlooked-how-the-central-valley-became-californias-most-fiercely-contested-political-turf","authors":["byline_news_11929729"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19113","news_5563","news_20251","news_6406","news_31876","news_1852"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11929769","label":"news_18481"},"news_11886054":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11886054","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11886054","score":null,"sort":[1629755457000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"with-allegations-of-police-violence-and-bone-breaking-bakersfield-agrees-to-reform-measures","title":"With Allegations of Police Violence and Bone-Breaking, Bakersfield Agrees to Reform Measures","publishDate":1629755457,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The city of Bakersfield has agreed to broad police reforms as part of a settlement with the state attorney general’s office over a long pattern of alleged abuses, officials said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state began its investigation in 2016 after “an outcry of complaints” that included “concerns around excessive force and other serious misconduct,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bakersfield Police Department “failed to uniformly and adequately enforce the law, leading to a pattern or practice of conduct that deprived Bakersfield residents of their constitutional protections,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from using excessive force, his office found that police were making improper stops, searches and arrests; using unreasonable deadly force against those with mental disabilities; and not accommodating those who don’t speak English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are serious allegations,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were disputed by Bakersfield Police Chief Greg Terry. [aside postID=news_11878013]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do everything possible to ensure that our community is safe and that our residents are treated with respect,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry said his department agreed to five years of oversight by a mutually chosen independent monitor because “we believe the state’s concerns are unfounded and we have nothing to hide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, the monitor will review the department’s policies, training, supervision, accountability and community engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry said he urged the city council to accept the settlement without admitting liability to avoid costly litigation and as a way of moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement came about two months after the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a> found that Bakersfield police officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878013/bakersfield-police-broke-31-peoples-bones-in-four-years-no-officer-has-been-disciplined-for-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke at least 45 bones in 31 people\u003c/a> during the four years ending in 2019, though the police department decided that none of its officers violated departmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the injured were later convicted of serious crimes, but others were never charged or had charges dismissed, the project found through a review of documents released under a recent California police records transparency law. [aside label=\"Police Misconduct\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43990_iStock-943697000-qut.jpg\" heroURL=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828774/a-chp-officer-harassed-21-women-agency-fired-bad-apple-but-didnt-pursue-criminal-charges,A CHP Officer Harassed 21 Women, Agency Fired 'Bad Apple' But Didn't Pursue Criminal Charges\" link2=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-19/sb-1421-sheriffs-department-disclosure,What Secret Files on Police Officers Tell Us About Law Enforcement Misconduct\" link3=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/,More stories from the California Reporting Project\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta and Terry said that as part of the settlement the department is already equipping officers with body cameras, collecting data on police stops early under the Racial and Identity Profiling Act, and starting a community collaboration initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry said the monitoring and supervision portions of the agreement exceed state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, the settlement also requires the department to revise its use-of-force policies, training and reporting, including with a focus on deescalation and working with those with mental health needs; restrict use of force by police dogs; improve hiring diversity; and work toward eliminating racial or other bias in policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal is similar to one the state reached with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office in December, calling for a five-year plan of corrective actions overseen by an independent monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, now vice president, opened the joint investigations into the city and county law enforcement agencies nearly five years ago, driven in part by officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bakersfield police officers sent an average of 304 people to the hospital each year from 2016 through 2019 following police encounters, the reporting project found in its analysis of internal affairs reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city paid out more than $1 million in 10 separate settlements for civil rights, excessive force and personal injury claims related to the police from 2014 to 2019. It settled for an additional $1.5 million in seven police-related wrongful death suits during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The city of Bakersfield has agreed to broad police reforms as part of a settlement with the California attorney general’s office over a long pattern of alleged abuses, officials said Monday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1629848625,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":697},"headData":{"title":"With Allegations of Police Violence and Bone-Breaking, Bakersfield Agrees to Reform Measures | KQED","description":"The city of Bakersfield has agreed to broad police reforms as part of a settlement with the California attorney general’s office over a long pattern of alleged abuses, officials said Monday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11886054 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11886054","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/08/23/with-allegations-of-police-violence-and-bone-breaking-bakersfield-agrees-to-reform-measures/","disqusTitle":"With Allegations of Police Violence and Bone-Breaking, Bakersfield Agrees to Reform Measures","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/c463e563-6825-42da-acf4-ad8e010c3dc7/audio.mp3","nprByline":"Don Thompson \u003cbr> The Associated Press","path":"/news/11886054/with-allegations-of-police-violence-and-bone-breaking-bakersfield-agrees-to-reform-measures","audioDuration":104000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The city of Bakersfield has agreed to broad police reforms as part of a settlement with the state attorney general’s office over a long pattern of alleged abuses, officials said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state began its investigation in 2016 after “an outcry of complaints” that included “concerns around excessive force and other serious misconduct,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bakersfield Police Department “failed to uniformly and adequately enforce the law, leading to a pattern or practice of conduct that deprived Bakersfield residents of their constitutional protections,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from using excessive force, his office found that police were making improper stops, searches and arrests; using unreasonable deadly force against those with mental disabilities; and not accommodating those who don’t speak English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are serious allegations,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were disputed by Bakersfield Police Chief Greg Terry. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11878013","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do everything possible to ensure that our community is safe and that our residents are treated with respect,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry said his department agreed to five years of oversight by a mutually chosen independent monitor because “we believe the state’s concerns are unfounded and we have nothing to hide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, the monitor will review the department’s policies, training, supervision, accountability and community engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry said he urged the city council to accept the settlement without admitting liability to avoid costly litigation and as a way of moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement came about two months after the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a> found that Bakersfield police officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878013/bakersfield-police-broke-31-peoples-bones-in-four-years-no-officer-has-been-disciplined-for-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke at least 45 bones in 31 people\u003c/a> during the four years ending in 2019, though the police department decided that none of its officers violated departmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the injured were later convicted of serious crimes, but others were never charged or had charges dismissed, the project found through a review of documents released under a recent California police records transparency law. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Police Misconduct ","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43990_iStock-943697000-qut.jpg","herourl":"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/","link1":"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828774/a-chp-officer-harassed-21-women-agency-fired-bad-apple-but-didnt-pursue-criminal-charges,A CHP Officer Harassed 21 Women, Agency Fired 'Bad Apple' But Didn't Pursue Criminal Charges","link2":"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-19/sb-1421-sheriffs-department-disclosure,What Secret Files on Police Officers Tell Us About Law Enforcement Misconduct","link3":"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/,More stories from the California Reporting Project"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta and Terry said that as part of the settlement the department is already equipping officers with body cameras, collecting data on police stops early under the Racial and Identity Profiling Act, and starting a community collaboration initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry said the monitoring and supervision portions of the agreement exceed state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, the settlement also requires the department to revise its use-of-force policies, training and reporting, including with a focus on deescalation and working with those with mental health needs; restrict use of force by police dogs; improve hiring diversity; and work toward eliminating racial or other bias in policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal is similar to one the state reached with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office in December, calling for a five-year plan of corrective actions overseen by an independent monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, now vice president, opened the joint investigations into the city and county law enforcement agencies nearly five years ago, driven in part by officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bakersfield police officers sent an average of 304 people to the hospital each year from 2016 through 2019 following police encounters, the reporting project found in its analysis of internal affairs reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city paid out more than $1 million in 10 separate settlements for civil rights, excessive force and personal injury claims related to the police from 2014 to 2019. It settled for an additional $1.5 million in seven police-related wrongful death suits during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11886054/with-allegations-of-police-violence-and-bone-breaking-bakersfield-agrees-to-reform-measures","authors":["byline_news_11886054"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17699","news_5563","news_29821","news_3674"],"featImg":"news_11886063","label":"news_72"},"news_11878013":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11878013","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11878013","score":null,"sort":[1623848429000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bakersfield-police-broke-31-peoples-bones-in-four-years-no-officer-has-been-disciplined-for-it","title":"Bakersfield Police Broke 31 People’s Bones in Four Years. No Officer Has Been Disciplined for It","publishDate":1623848429,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em; float: left; line-height: 0.733em; padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0; font-family: times, serif, georgia;\">O\u003c/span>n 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, restaurants interspersed with a rehab center and a prepaid phone store. A little before midnight, two officers noticed that the 37-year-old Cruz didn’t have a front light on his bicycle. A patrol officer chased Cruz to a nearby yard. There, Cruz crouched behind a child’s play tunnel, and the officer struck his arm with a baton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a police report, Cruz shouted “I didn’t do anything” twice before the officer struck again. The patrolmen arrested Cruz for assaulting an officer, resisting arrest and for the missing bike light. Before taking him to jail, an ambulance brought Cruz to the hospital, a bone sticking out of his skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2016 and 2019, Bakersfield police officers used force that broke at least 45 bones in 31 people, an analysis of public records shows. The city of Bakersfield released the documents under a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758000/delaying-the-inevitable-many-police-agencies-withhold-records-in-new-era-of-transparency\"> recent California law that increases transparency in policing\u003c/a>. The records released include those cases that involved serious injury or death. A third of the time, injuries reported included one or more broken bones.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote align=\"right\" citation=\"Traco Matthews, Bakersfield policing committee co-chair\"]'Can we get to a place where use-of-force incidents, especially serious use-of-force incidents, are less and the public is still safe?'[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nBesides Cruz, two other bicyclists stopped by patrol officers for code violations suffered broken bones during that four-year period. They also ended up at the hospital, one with head fractures, the other a broken leg. Some of the 31 people were later convicted of serious crimes, but an analysis of police reports reveals that others had charges dismissed, or never faced charges at all. While wrestling in a pile of blankets with a 57-year-old woman who was suspected of trespassing in a Greyhound station, officers broke her wrist. And when one man allegedly violated the \u003ca href=\"https://bakersfield.municipal.codes/Code/12.56.050\">city’s curfew\u003c/a> in Martin Luther King Jr. Park, officers tased and hit him with a baton, breaking his leg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all 31 cases involving broken bones, the Bakersfield Police Department determined that none of the officers involved violated departmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaking a bone is a brutal act, said Bakersfield Police Sgt. Robert Pair, a spokesman for the department. But it’s also not unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's the unfortunate reality that force is sometimes used in defense of officers and others, and that's the world we live in,” Pair said. “I don't think that that is an alarming number at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of broken bones is disturbing to Stephanie Padilla, a staff attorney for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/patterns_practices_police_excessive_force_kern_county_aclu-ca_paper.pdf\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a> of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that is high, and I do think that is a really troubling number that one out of three [serious] use-of-force cases result in broken bones,” Padilla said. “It tracks what individuals in the community have shared with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traco Matthews sits in his home on May 20, 2021 in Bakersfield, California. Matthews worked with the Bakersfield Police Department and community groups to recommend policing reforms, and chairs the Community Collaborative Use of Force Policy and Oversight Committee. \u003ccite>(Anne Daugherty/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfieldcity.us/458/City-Council\">Bakersfield City Council\u003c/a> will vote on whether to allocate $133 million next year to policing. That would raise the department’s share to 42% of the city budget and add 28 police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s budget hearings are the latest venue for a public debate about the quality of policing in Bakersfield, where voters narrowly approved a 1% sales tax increase to boost funding for essential services three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city pitched the sales tax as a public safety measure, but residents of Bakersfield still disagree about how best to keep the public safe. The Police Department has proposed hiring 100 officers within three years. But it remains the target of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/california-department-of-justice-investigates-bakersfield-police-department/\">California Department of Justice investigation opened more than four years ago\u003c/a> by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris. Demands for policing reforms — including defunding or even \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesbudgetbako.com/about/\">abolishing the department\u003c/a> — accelerated during Black Lives Matter protests last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we stand on the precipice of a critical juncture, a critical moment here in Bakersfield and in Kern County,” said Traco Matthews, a local Black civic leader and chief program officer at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.capk.org/\">Community Action Partnership of Kern\u003c/a>. Matthews co-chairs an independent committee convened by the City Council that has offered recommendations for police reform. “Can we get to a place where use-of-force incidents, especially serious use-of-force incidents, are less and the public is still safe? And every citizen, every resident, feels like they are part of this family of Bakersfield being protected and served by BPD? Absolutely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Multiple Layers of Review, Says Department\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Among all of the cases released by the department, internal reports concluded that the force Bakersfield police used to cause a fracture was reasonable: each dog bite, every control hold, every physical strike and every strike of the baton. Using batons, officers broke bones in 26 people; once, an officer broke the baton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following every incident, the department applied a careful review process, said Sgt. Pair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not a carte blanche that you can use a baton, go out there and use a baton whenever you want to,” Pair said. “Each one is … scrutinized under the facts and circumstances of its own event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That scrutiny has layers. When a Bakersfield police officer uses force, the officer must report it to a supervisor, usually the sergeant on duty, according to the department’s manual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The manual then directs sergeants to ensure that the person injured receives medical treatment and to investigate the incident. Policy directs sergeants to examine the scene, review video footage, interview witnesses and talk to the injured person if they consent.\u003cbr>\n[aside label=\"Police Misconduct\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43990_iStock-943697000-qut.jpg\" heroURL=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828774/a-chp-officer-harassed-21-women-agency-fired-bad-apple-but-didnt-pursue-criminal-charges,A CHP Officer Harassed 21 Women, Agency Fired 'Bad Apple' But Didn't Pursue Criminal Charges\" link2=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-19/sb-1421-sheriffs-department-disclosure,What Secret Files on Police Officers Tell Us About Law Enforcement Misconduct\" link3=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/,More stories from the California Reporting Project\"]\u003cbr>\nIn Bakersfield, every sergeant also writes a report about any use of force. And every sergeant’s report must be reviewed by the watch commander, a lieutenant. Department spokespeople say that captains sometimes review use-of-force reports, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the force used is deemed reasonable, that sergeant’s report may be brief, as in the case of Robert Cruz Jr., stopped for lacking a bicycle light. In that case, the sergeant’s description of what happened was five sentences long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Andrew Celedon reported that Cruz abandoned his bike when approached by a patrol car and ran for a nearby yard. There, he tried to jump a fence; Celedon pulled him down to the ground, where he curled up behind a play tunnel. When Celedon wrote up the incident, he emphasized the darkness in the yard and the possibility that Cruz could carry a knife, gun or weapons in his baggy clothes. Celedon stated he struck Cruz, who was crouched in a fetal position, with a baton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Robinson, an instructor at \u003ca href=\"https://ccj.asu.edu/\">Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice\u003c/a> and a 37-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department, said the goal of an investigation should be to decide whether the force used was appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bakersfield in my mind has the right steps in place,” Robinson said of the department’s policies. “Supervisors should come out and review every use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within two weeks, Sgt. Charles Sherman concluded that strike against Cruz was an effective use of force, necessary for self-defense.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergeants are supposed to review and write a report about all uses of force at the Bakersfield Police Department. \u003ccite>(Anne Daugherty/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Are the Reviews Enough?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seth Stoughton, \u003ca href=\"https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/law/faculty_and_staff/directory/stoughton_seth.php\">University of South Carolina School of Law\u003c/a> associate professor, reviewed the Robert Cruz Jr. report. Like others provided in response to a records request, the Police Department retrieved that report from incident tracking software sold to law enforcement agencies called \u003ca href=\"https://blueteamcorp.com/\">BlueTeam\u003c/a>. In it, Cruz is described as fleeing and resisting arrest, both legal conclusions offered without support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoughton, who testified for the prosecution at Derek Chauvin’s trial in the killing of George Floyd, said the report was “woefully inadequate” to examine an individual event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good investigations of incidents like this are wide-ranging, he said. After-action reports should look back at what happened in detail and also look forward to offer ways to improve outcomes in the future, regardless of fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the incident in which a Bakersfield officer broke Cruz’s bone, the sergeant’s report “does not have anywhere near the level of detail that any competent supervisor would demand to assess, even in a very cursory fashion, the incident being described,” Stoughton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you're using it as one of many data points to get a bird's-eye view, then maybe this is all you need,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Bakersfield Police Sgt. Christopher Bagby, who works in the agency’s Quality Assurance Unit, the department’s use-of-force working group uses BlueTeam data to examine the effectiveness of strategy and tactics. Late in 2019, the Quality Assurance Unit also began randomized audits of the reports themselves. Sgt. Pair said that the system will automatically alert a supervisor if one of the officers under their command is using more force than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a sergeant sees something potentially criminal, that goes to internal affairs. That department investigates citizen complaints and also begins its own inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 31 broken bone cases released in Bakersfield, internal affairs investigated three, the only incidents where records show citizens complained. The internal affairs office cleared every officer in those three cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and experts say that a review process is not a disciplinary process. Rather, it’s a way for departments to see how they can adjust and improve. Reducing violence in a community includes reducing uses of force, Stoughton said. Professional agencies need to look at each incident and ask what they can learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the answer is there is nothing that we could realistically change here that would have any impact,” Stoughton said. “The agency can control whether officers are issued a taser, for example, or that the agency can control how long an officer’s shift is to see if they're fatigued and making bad decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878138\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-800x447.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-1536x858.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bakersfield police vehicle makes patrols on Nov. 17, 2017 in Bakersfield, California. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Injuries Linger, Financially and With Community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Cory Joe Pearson fired a gun through the windshield of a car at his former girlfriend and her cousin, according to police reports. Bakersfield police tracked him to a Vagabond Inn. When Pearson left his room for a smoke, one officer tackled Pearson to the ground in the motel parking lot. At the same time, another officer noticed Pearson “thrashing,” and struck Pearson with a baton twice, breaking his shin bone. Four years later, Pearson said he still hasn’t recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in constant pain, always, because of it,” Pearson said by phone from the state prison in Lancaster where he is serving a 20-year sentence for assault with a firearm. “I can’t run, I can’t play sports,” he said. “I can hardly walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policing experts say that batons are among the safer weapons officers carry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best thing about a baton is that officers can use it as a threat to frighten someone into compliance without striking them, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/peter-moskos\">John Jay College of Criminal Justice\u003c/a> professor Peter Moskos. Any weapon that doesn’t have to be used to make a person comply is safer “because it doesn't have to be used as much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Bakersfield Police Department defends its use of force as judicious and skilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do our job without use of force,” said Sgt. Lynn Martinez, who trains officers in how to use force properly. “Sometimes police officers will have to hurt people to protect themselves and others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there’s a cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2016 to 2019, Bakersfield police officers sent an average of 304 people to the hospital per year following police encounters, an analysis of internal affairs reports shows. Officers and health workers decide where subjects of the use of force receive medical care, according to the department's policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"People Taken to the Hospital After Encounters With Bakersfield Police\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-iBUnj\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/iBUnj/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n[datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People injured by uses of force describe emotional and financial costs from an encounter with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any use of force, even a relatively low-level use of force, is a significant event between a police department and the community, said University of South Carolina’s Stoughton, a former Florida police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “a really a significant government intrusion onto individual liberty and autonomy,” he said. “Of all of the aspects of policing, the use of force has probably the highest potential to be socially corrosive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Budget a Flashpoint For Public Safety Debate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last June, anger at the police spilled into public meetings as the City Council unanimously voted to increase funding for the Bakersfield Police Department just weeks after the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council used money from Measure N, a public safety and services budgeting measure, which narrowly passed by 97 votes, winning by 0.05% in 2018. At the time, the city proposed using the funds on a wide range of services, including emergency response, police and fire protection, various anti-crime efforts, addressing homelessness and attracting jobs and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as Bakersfield added more officers to the force, the number of \u003ca href=\"https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/2021-homicide-numbers-expected-to-surpass-deadliest-record-set-last-year-bpd-says\">homicides increased\u003c/a>, a number both the police and city residents cited at public meetings in May and June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Bakersfield Police Department Budget by Fiscal Year \" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-g6UDA\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/g6UDA/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public testimony at the most recent City Council meeting in early June, Bakersfield residents laid out their main concern: a desire to feel safe, some from criminals, and others from the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see some policemen reform,” Christ First Ministries Pastor Josephate Jordan said. “But to defund the police when we have areas of our community that are not patrolled regularly? Well, we have crime running rampant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others called for the city to move more money toward services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Put the funding somewhere it can be utilized like MLK Park,” Christina Crompton urged the councilmembers on June 2. “I take my kids all the time. I go out there, I pick up trash in the park, I pick up needles in the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crompton, 22, told a reporter that she wants to see the funds spent on public projects instead of more police officers. Crompton’s cousin is Tatyana Hargrove, a young woman whose high-profile encounter with police in 2017 has since galvanized activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years ago, Bakersfield police officers sought a 160-pound, 5-foot-10-inch Black man who had attempted to stab a grocery store clerk with a machete. According to police reports, officers stopped Hargrove, a 120-pound woman who was 8 inches shorter. Officers punched her, set a dog on her and put her in the back of a patrol cruiser before realizing she was a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges against Hargrove were dropped. She lost a lawsuit for excessive force against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders like Matthews and activists like Crompton have since highlighted Hargrove’s case as an example of how excessive force costs the Police Department trust with the community as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine how our family felt,” Crompton said. “Do you know a pain in your chest? You know how when you’re in trouble and it gets very heavy and you can’t breathe. That’s the pain our family felt in our hearts when Tatyana was beaten by the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of incidents make it less likely for people to report crime, Crompton said, and that makes it harder for officers to solve crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s going to be there to protect us at the end of the day?” Crompton asked. “Who are we going to call? We’re scared of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Crompton works at a community garden on May 21, 2021 in southeast Bakersfield, California, where they distribute free produce. Better cultural training and increased diversity would decrease tension and mistrust between police and community members, Crompton said. \u003ccite>(Anne Daughtery/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates say Crompton is not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a poll conducted by the independent Bakersfield Police Department Community Collaborative, about one in five people said they did not feel comfortable requesting assistance from the agency in an emergency situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are just too many incidents,” said Traco Matthews, who co-chaired the collaborative. \u003ca href=\"https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/bakersfield.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/62/062967f4-8917-11eb-83fb-270d07507ba2/6055483d3425e.pdf.pdf\">The reforms his group recommended\u003c/a> to the City Council last month include that the department follow up on policy changes first proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2004, diversify the force and hire an independent auditor. The council accepted the recommendations without comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When and How Are Broken Bones Counted?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, about 5 miles south of where Hargrove was stopped by the Bakersfield police, Arturo Gonzalez stepped out of his house — and into another case of mistaken identity, also by Bakersfield police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2015, the Bakersfield Police Department sent four officers to Gonzalez’s house to perform a welfare check after his son, also named Arturo Gonzalez, called 911 “rambling, not making too much sense.” Records show police officers prepared for the younger Gonzalez to ambush them. A 911 dispatcher called Gonzalez Sr., who said that his son wasn’t at the house; according to a transcript, the dispatcher then notified officers that the elder Gonzalez was coming outside to meet them. Video captured by a neighbor’s camera shows Gonzalez shuffling backward, arms raised, and lit by flashlights and a flood light in his driveway. After he kneels, officers knock him flat, then beat and knee the elder Gonzalez. Among his injuries were broken ribs.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote align=\"right\" citation=\"Arturo Gonzalez\"]'When I come outside of my house, I think about the attack.'[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n“If this isn’t a serious bodily injury I don’t know what a serious bodily injury is,” said Thomas Seabaugh, a lawyer for Gonzalez. But Gonzalez’s case isn’t counted among the 109 cases between 2014 and 2019 the department released under the state transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After realizing that they arrested the wrong man, police transported Gonzalez to Mercy Southwest Hospital in an ambulance, handcuffed to a gurney. Gonzalez was not charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No broken bones are documented in the initial police report, said Lt. Ryan Kroeker, a spokesman for the Bakersfield Police Department, who added that “there were no obvious injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez returned to Mercy, still complaining of pain, two days later. But it wasn’t until a week later, at his primary care physician, that X-rays revealed the extent of his injuries. After blows delivered by the officers, injuries diagnosed by at least three doctors included broken ribs, a damaged spine and torn tendons in his left shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, going to the hospital reflects a serious injury, said use-of-force expert Stoughton. It’s common in use-of-force investigations for someone to contact the individual and ask whether they received additional medical treatment, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, that's not a hard thing to check up on,” Stoughton said. “We’re talking about a 15-minute phone call.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arturo Gonzalez shows reporters his paintings of a Mexican woman reclining, and a tulip with figure. \u003ccite>(Anne Daugherty/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At multiple departments, records released under the state’s transparency law \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/21/bay-area-news-group-sues-san-jose-for-failure-to-release-police-discipline-use-of-force-records/\">have so far\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817288/kqed-sues-chp-over-failure-to-disclose-discipline-and-use-of-force-records\">been incomplete\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861149/kqed-sues-bart-for-records-on-oscar-grant-shooting-and-other-police-killings\">requiring significant\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-19/sb-1421-sheriffs-department-disclosure\">legal follow-up\u003c/a>. Even where police departments produce records, as in Bakersfield, the information doesn’t reflect the whole story. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">A proposal \u003c/a>now moving through the state Legislature would, if passed, make records available for all uses of force found excessive or unreasonable, regardless of injury, and set a deadline for agencies to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trusting the police to keep the data on themselves,” said attorney Thomas Seabaugh. “It’s like trusting the corporation to tell us when it has polluted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, Gonzalez said he is still crippled with pain from the injuries and is still receiving care. The cost of treatment has continued to add up, from steroid injections to shoulder surgery. In late May, his doctor recommended another surgery on his back, Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This and other incidents have also cost money for local taxpayers. Gonzalez brought a civil rights case against the officers, including one who was present but did nothing to stop the beating, and settled with the city in 2018 for $125,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2019 the city paid out more than $1 million in 10 separate settlements for civil rights, excessive force and personal injury claims related to the police. During the same time period the city settled for an additional $1.525 million in seven wrongful death suits, also all related to the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said that he doesn’t go out much anymore because he’s afraid that the police might stop him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to feel safe at home, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I come outside of my house, I think about the attack,” he said. “And I think about police officers doing this to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades working in heavy labor, Gonzalez planned to devote his retirement to art. His acrylic and oil paintings adorn the walls of his house. In his entryway, Pine Mountain in Ojai, California; on his dining room wall, a beautiful Mexican woman. A few more in the living room; others throughout the house. He started painting in seventh grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For [painting] you have to be calm and peaceful,” Gonzalez said. “The pain is going to trigger you out of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he says he hasn’t been painting recently. Sitting for long periods is arduous. It’s too hard to raise his arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexandra Hall, Noah Baustin, Lily Taylor, Eric Ting, Daniel Wu and Ying Zhao contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state, including \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.stanford.edu/\">Stanford Journalism\u003c/a>’s Watchdog Reporting Class, the \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\">UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a> and KQED. The project was formed in 2018 to request and report on previously secret records of police misconduct and use of force in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How We Did It\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We wanted to know how Bakersfield Police Department officers use force and how that force was investigated. In 2019, reporters from the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a collaborative effort involving 40 newsrooms across the state, requested under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1421\">Senate Bill 1421\u003c/a> records about uses of force that resulted in serious bodily injury and cases involving police misconduct from 2014 to 2018. In 2020, the collaboration asked for the records for cases that met the same standards that occurred in 2019. We confirmed with the city attorney that we had all disciplinary records available through the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two researchers read each case and entered information into a database. An editor reviewed the entries to make a final determination. We analyzed data on cases from the Bakersfield Police Department from 2014 to 2019 to learn more about cases where an officer broke someone’s bone. That data included information on the use of force, administrative findings and discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke with officers in the Public Affairs and the Quality Assurance Unit about how they trained officers and review use-of-force cases. The Police Department said that they did not turn over Arturo Gonzalez’s case because they did not know the extent of his injuries at the time. Lt. Kroeker said the cases documented uses of force that were within policy and reviewed in the routine fashion. We did not reach out individually to police officers named in the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Using batons, police caused fractures in some Bakersfield residents accused of serious crimes, and others who were never charged, or had charges dismissed.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1623803331,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/iBUnj/3/","https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/g6UDA/6/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":86,"wordCount":4208},"headData":{"title":"Bakersfield Police Broke 31 People’s Bones in Four Years. No Officer Has Been Disciplined for It | KQED","description":"Using batons, police caused fractures in some Bakersfield residents accused of serious crimes, and others who were never charged, or had charges dismissed.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11878013 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11878013","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/06/16/bakersfield-police-broke-31-peoples-bones-in-four-years-no-officer-has-been-disciplined-for-it/","disqusTitle":"Bakersfield Police Broke 31 People’s Bones in Four Years. No Officer Has Been Disciplined for It","nprByline":"Lisa Pickoff-White, KQED; Ross Ewald and Danielle Echeverria, Stanford University; Anne Daugherty, UC Berkeley","path":"/news/11878013/bakersfield-police-broke-31-peoples-bones-in-four-years-no-officer-has-been-disciplined-for-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em; float: left; line-height: 0.733em; padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0; font-family: times, serif, georgia;\">O\u003c/span>n 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, restaurants interspersed with a rehab center and a prepaid phone store. A little before midnight, two officers noticed that the 37-year-old Cruz didn’t have a front light on his bicycle. A patrol officer chased Cruz to a nearby yard. There, Cruz crouched behind a child’s play tunnel, and the officer struck his arm with a baton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a police report, Cruz shouted “I didn’t do anything” twice before the officer struck again. The patrolmen arrested Cruz for assaulting an officer, resisting arrest and for the missing bike light. Before taking him to jail, an ambulance brought Cruz to the hospital, a bone sticking out of his skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2016 and 2019, Bakersfield police officers used force that broke at least 45 bones in 31 people, an analysis of public records shows. The city of Bakersfield released the documents under a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758000/delaying-the-inevitable-many-police-agencies-withhold-records-in-new-era-of-transparency\"> recent California law that increases transparency in policing\u003c/a>. The records released include those cases that involved serious injury or death. A third of the time, injuries reported included one or more broken bones.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Can we get to a place where use-of-force incidents, especially serious use-of-force incidents, are less and the public is still safe?'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","citation":"Traco Matthews, Bakersfield policing committee co-chair","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBesides Cruz, two other bicyclists stopped by patrol officers for code violations suffered broken bones during that four-year period. They also ended up at the hospital, one with head fractures, the other a broken leg. Some of the 31 people were later convicted of serious crimes, but an analysis of police reports reveals that others had charges dismissed, or never faced charges at all. While wrestling in a pile of blankets with a 57-year-old woman who was suspected of trespassing in a Greyhound station, officers broke her wrist. And when one man allegedly violated the \u003ca href=\"https://bakersfield.municipal.codes/Code/12.56.050\">city’s curfew\u003c/a> in Martin Luther King Jr. Park, officers tased and hit him with a baton, breaking his leg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all 31 cases involving broken bones, the Bakersfield Police Department determined that none of the officers involved violated departmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaking a bone is a brutal act, said Bakersfield Police Sgt. Robert Pair, a spokesman for the department. But it’s also not unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's the unfortunate reality that force is sometimes used in defense of officers and others, and that's the world we live in,” Pair said. “I don't think that that is an alarming number at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of broken bones is disturbing to Stephanie Padilla, a staff attorney for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/patterns_practices_police_excessive_force_kern_county_aclu-ca_paper.pdf\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a> of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think that is high, and I do think that is a really troubling number that one out of three [serious] use-of-force cases result in broken bones,” Padilla said. “It tracks what individuals in the community have shared with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/matthews-bakersfield.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traco Matthews sits in his home on May 20, 2021 in Bakersfield, California. Matthews worked with the Bakersfield Police Department and community groups to recommend policing reforms, and chairs the Community Collaborative Use of Force Policy and Oversight Committee. \u003ccite>(Anne Daugherty/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakersfieldcity.us/458/City-Council\">Bakersfield City Council\u003c/a> will vote on whether to allocate $133 million next year to policing. That would raise the department’s share to 42% of the city budget and add 28 police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s budget hearings are the latest venue for a public debate about the quality of policing in Bakersfield, where voters narrowly approved a 1% sales tax increase to boost funding for essential services three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city pitched the sales tax as a public safety measure, but residents of Bakersfield still disagree about how best to keep the public safe. The Police Department has proposed hiring 100 officers within three years. But it remains the target of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/california-department-of-justice-investigates-bakersfield-police-department/\">California Department of Justice investigation opened more than four years ago\u003c/a> by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris. Demands for policing reforms — including defunding or even \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesbudgetbako.com/about/\">abolishing the department\u003c/a> — accelerated during Black Lives Matter protests last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we stand on the precipice of a critical juncture, a critical moment here in Bakersfield and in Kern County,” said Traco Matthews, a local Black civic leader and chief program officer at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.capk.org/\">Community Action Partnership of Kern\u003c/a>. Matthews co-chairs an independent committee convened by the City Council that has offered recommendations for police reform. “Can we get to a place where use-of-force incidents, especially serious use-of-force incidents, are less and the public is still safe? And every citizen, every resident, feels like they are part of this family of Bakersfield being protected and served by BPD? Absolutely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Multiple Layers of Review, Says Department\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Among all of the cases released by the department, internal reports concluded that the force Bakersfield police used to cause a fracture was reasonable: each dog bite, every control hold, every physical strike and every strike of the baton. Using batons, officers broke bones in 26 people; once, an officer broke the baton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following every incident, the department applied a careful review process, said Sgt. Pair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not a carte blanche that you can use a baton, go out there and use a baton whenever you want to,” Pair said. “Each one is … scrutinized under the facts and circumstances of its own event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That scrutiny has layers. When a Bakersfield police officer uses force, the officer must report it to a supervisor, usually the sergeant on duty, according to the department’s manual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The manual then directs sergeants to ensure that the person injured receives medical treatment and to investigate the incident. Policy directs sergeants to examine the scene, review video footage, interview witnesses and talk to the injured person if they consent.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Police Misconduct ","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43990_iStock-943697000-qut.jpg","herourl":"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/","link1":"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828774/a-chp-officer-harassed-21-women-agency-fired-bad-apple-but-didnt-pursue-criminal-charges,A CHP Officer Harassed 21 Women, Agency Fired 'Bad Apple' But Didn't Pursue Criminal Charges","link2":"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-19/sb-1421-sheriffs-department-disclosure,What Secret Files on Police Officers Tell Us About Law Enforcement Misconduct","link3":"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/,More stories from the California Reporting Project"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIn Bakersfield, every sergeant also writes a report about any use of force. And every sergeant’s report must be reviewed by the watch commander, a lieutenant. Department spokespeople say that captains sometimes review use-of-force reports, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the force used is deemed reasonable, that sergeant’s report may be brief, as in the case of Robert Cruz Jr., stopped for lacking a bicycle light. In that case, the sergeant’s description of what happened was five sentences long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Andrew Celedon reported that Cruz abandoned his bike when approached by a patrol car and ran for a nearby yard. There, he tried to jump a fence; Celedon pulled him down to the ground, where he curled up behind a play tunnel. When Celedon wrote up the incident, he emphasized the darkness in the yard and the possibility that Cruz could carry a knife, gun or weapons in his baggy clothes. Celedon stated he struck Cruz, who was crouched in a fetal position, with a baton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Robinson, an instructor at \u003ca href=\"https://ccj.asu.edu/\">Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice\u003c/a> and a 37-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department, said the goal of an investigation should be to decide whether the force used was appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bakersfield in my mind has the right steps in place,” Robinson said of the department’s policies. “Supervisors should come out and review every use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within two weeks, Sgt. Charles Sherman concluded that strike against Cruz was an effective use of force, necessary for self-defense.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-building.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergeants are supposed to review and write a report about all uses of force at the Bakersfield Police Department. \u003ccite>(Anne Daugherty/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Are the Reviews Enough?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Seth Stoughton, \u003ca href=\"https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/law/faculty_and_staff/directory/stoughton_seth.php\">University of South Carolina School of Law\u003c/a> associate professor, reviewed the Robert Cruz Jr. report. Like others provided in response to a records request, the Police Department retrieved that report from incident tracking software sold to law enforcement agencies called \u003ca href=\"https://blueteamcorp.com/\">BlueTeam\u003c/a>. In it, Cruz is described as fleeing and resisting arrest, both legal conclusions offered without support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoughton, who testified for the prosecution at Derek Chauvin’s trial in the killing of George Floyd, said the report was “woefully inadequate” to examine an individual event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good investigations of incidents like this are wide-ranging, he said. After-action reports should look back at what happened in detail and also look forward to offer ways to improve outcomes in the future, regardless of fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the incident in which a Bakersfield officer broke Cruz’s bone, the sergeant’s report “does not have anywhere near the level of detail that any competent supervisor would demand to assess, even in a very cursory fashion, the incident being described,” Stoughton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you're using it as one of many data points to get a bird's-eye view, then maybe this is all you need,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Bakersfield Police Sgt. Christopher Bagby, who works in the agency’s Quality Assurance Unit, the department’s use-of-force working group uses BlueTeam data to examine the effectiveness of strategy and tactics. Late in 2019, the Quality Assurance Unit also began randomized audits of the reports themselves. Sgt. Pair said that the system will automatically alert a supervisor if one of the officers under their command is using more force than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a sergeant sees something potentially criminal, that goes to internal affairs. That department investigates citizen complaints and also begins its own inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 31 broken bone cases released in Bakersfield, internal affairs investigated three, the only incidents where records show citizens complained. The internal affairs office cleared every officer in those three cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and experts say that a review process is not a disciplinary process. Rather, it’s a way for departments to see how they can adjust and improve. Reducing violence in a community includes reducing uses of force, Stoughton said. Professional agencies need to look at each incident and ask what they can learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the answer is there is nothing that we could realistically change here that would have any impact,” Stoughton said. “The agency can control whether officers are issued a taser, for example, or that the agency can control how long an officer’s shift is to see if they're fatigued and making bad decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878138\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-800x447.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-1020x570.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars-1536x858.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/bpd-copcars.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bakersfield police vehicle makes patrols on Nov. 17, 2017 in Bakersfield, California. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Injuries Linger, Financially and With Community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Cory Joe Pearson fired a gun through the windshield of a car at his former girlfriend and her cousin, according to police reports. Bakersfield police tracked him to a Vagabond Inn. When Pearson left his room for a smoke, one officer tackled Pearson to the ground in the motel parking lot. At the same time, another officer noticed Pearson “thrashing,” and struck Pearson with a baton twice, breaking his shin bone. Four years later, Pearson said he still hasn’t recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in constant pain, always, because of it,” Pearson said by phone from the state prison in Lancaster where he is serving a 20-year sentence for assault with a firearm. “I can’t run, I can’t play sports,” he said. “I can hardly walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policing experts say that batons are among the safer weapons officers carry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best thing about a baton is that officers can use it as a threat to frighten someone into compliance without striking them, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/peter-moskos\">John Jay College of Criminal Justice\u003c/a> professor Peter Moskos. Any weapon that doesn’t have to be used to make a person comply is safer “because it doesn't have to be used as much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Bakersfield Police Department defends its use of force as judicious and skilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do our job without use of force,” said Sgt. Lynn Martinez, who trains officers in how to use force properly. “Sometimes police officers will have to hurt people to protect themselves and others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there’s a cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2016 to 2019, Bakersfield police officers sent an average of 304 people to the hospital per year following police encounters, an analysis of internal affairs reports shows. Officers and health workers decide where subjects of the use of force receive medical care, according to the department's policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"People Taken to the Hospital After Encounters With Bakersfield Police\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-iBUnj\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/iBUnj/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"datawrapper","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People injured by uses of force describe emotional and financial costs from an encounter with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any use of force, even a relatively low-level use of force, is a significant event between a police department and the community, said University of South Carolina’s Stoughton, a former Florida police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “a really a significant government intrusion onto individual liberty and autonomy,” he said. “Of all of the aspects of policing, the use of force has probably the highest potential to be socially corrosive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Budget a Flashpoint For Public Safety Debate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last June, anger at the police spilled into public meetings as the City Council unanimously voted to increase funding for the Bakersfield Police Department just weeks after the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council used money from Measure N, a public safety and services budgeting measure, which narrowly passed by 97 votes, winning by 0.05% in 2018. At the time, the city proposed using the funds on a wide range of services, including emergency response, police and fire protection, various anti-crime efforts, addressing homelessness and attracting jobs and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as Bakersfield added more officers to the force, the number of \u003ca href=\"https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/2021-homicide-numbers-expected-to-surpass-deadliest-record-set-last-year-bpd-says\">homicides increased\u003c/a>, a number both the police and city residents cited at public meetings in May and June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Bakersfield Police Department Budget by Fiscal Year \" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-g6UDA\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/g6UDA/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public testimony at the most recent City Council meeting in early June, Bakersfield residents laid out their main concern: a desire to feel safe, some from criminals, and others from the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see some policemen reform,” Christ First Ministries Pastor Josephate Jordan said. “But to defund the police when we have areas of our community that are not patrolled regularly? Well, we have crime running rampant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others called for the city to move more money toward services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Put the funding somewhere it can be utilized like MLK Park,” Christina Crompton urged the councilmembers on June 2. “I take my kids all the time. I go out there, I pick up trash in the park, I pick up needles in the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crompton, 22, told a reporter that she wants to see the funds spent on public projects instead of more police officers. Crompton’s cousin is Tatyana Hargrove, a young woman whose high-profile encounter with police in 2017 has since galvanized activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years ago, Bakersfield police officers sought a 160-pound, 5-foot-10-inch Black man who had attempted to stab a grocery store clerk with a machete. According to police reports, officers stopped Hargrove, a 120-pound woman who was 8 inches shorter. Officers punched her, set a dog on her and put her in the back of a patrol cruiser before realizing she was a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges against Hargrove were dropped. She lost a lawsuit for excessive force against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders like Matthews and activists like Crompton have since highlighted Hargrove’s case as an example of how excessive force costs the Police Department trust with the community as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine how our family felt,” Crompton said. “Do you know a pain in your chest? You know how when you’re in trouble and it gets very heavy and you can’t breathe. That’s the pain our family felt in our hearts when Tatyana was beaten by the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of incidents make it less likely for people to report crime, Crompton said, and that makes it harder for officers to solve crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s going to be there to protect us at the end of the day?” Crompton asked. “Who are we going to call? We’re scared of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/crompton.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Crompton works at a community garden on May 21, 2021 in southeast Bakersfield, California, where they distribute free produce. Better cultural training and increased diversity would decrease tension and mistrust between police and community members, Crompton said. \u003ccite>(Anne Daughtery/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates say Crompton is not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a poll conducted by the independent Bakersfield Police Department Community Collaborative, about one in five people said they did not feel comfortable requesting assistance from the agency in an emergency situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are just too many incidents,” said Traco Matthews, who co-chaired the collaborative. \u003ca href=\"https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/bakersfield.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/62/062967f4-8917-11eb-83fb-270d07507ba2/6055483d3425e.pdf.pdf\">The reforms his group recommended\u003c/a> to the City Council last month include that the department follow up on policy changes first proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2004, diversify the force and hire an independent auditor. The council accepted the recommendations without comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When and How Are Broken Bones Counted?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, about 5 miles south of where Hargrove was stopped by the Bakersfield police, Arturo Gonzalez stepped out of his house — and into another case of mistaken identity, also by Bakersfield police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2015, the Bakersfield Police Department sent four officers to Gonzalez’s house to perform a welfare check after his son, also named Arturo Gonzalez, called 911 “rambling, not making too much sense.” Records show police officers prepared for the younger Gonzalez to ambush them. A 911 dispatcher called Gonzalez Sr., who said that his son wasn’t at the house; according to a transcript, the dispatcher then notified officers that the elder Gonzalez was coming outside to meet them. Video captured by a neighbor’s camera shows Gonzalez shuffling backward, arms raised, and lit by flashlights and a flood light in his driveway. After he kneels, officers knock him flat, then beat and knee the elder Gonzalez. Among his injuries were broken ribs.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When I come outside of my house, I think about the attack.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","citation":"Arturo Gonzalez","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“If this isn’t a serious bodily injury I don’t know what a serious bodily injury is,” said Thomas Seabaugh, a lawyer for Gonzalez. But Gonzalez’s case isn’t counted among the 109 cases between 2014 and 2019 the department released under the state transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After realizing that they arrested the wrong man, police transported Gonzalez to Mercy Southwest Hospital in an ambulance, handcuffed to a gurney. Gonzalez was not charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No broken bones are documented in the initial police report, said Lt. Ryan Kroeker, a spokesman for the Bakersfield Police Department, who added that “there were no obvious injuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez returned to Mercy, still complaining of pain, two days later. But it wasn’t until a week later, at his primary care physician, that X-rays revealed the extent of his injuries. After blows delivered by the officers, injuries diagnosed by at least three doctors included broken ribs, a damaged spine and torn tendons in his left shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally, going to the hospital reflects a serious injury, said use-of-force expert Stoughton. It’s common in use-of-force investigations for someone to contact the individual and ask whether they received additional medical treatment, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, that's not a hard thing to check up on,” Stoughton said. “We’re talking about a 15-minute phone call.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/gonzalez-paintings.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arturo Gonzalez shows reporters his paintings of a Mexican woman reclining, and a tulip with figure. \u003ccite>(Anne Daugherty/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At multiple departments, records released under the state’s transparency law \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/21/bay-area-news-group-sues-san-jose-for-failure-to-release-police-discipline-use-of-force-records/\">have so far\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817288/kqed-sues-chp-over-failure-to-disclose-discipline-and-use-of-force-records\">been incomplete\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861149/kqed-sues-bart-for-records-on-oscar-grant-shooting-and-other-police-killings\">requiring significant\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-19/sb-1421-sheriffs-department-disclosure\">legal follow-up\u003c/a>. Even where police departments produce records, as in Bakersfield, the information doesn’t reflect the whole story. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">A proposal \u003c/a>now moving through the state Legislature would, if passed, make records available for all uses of force found excessive or unreasonable, regardless of injury, and set a deadline for agencies to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trusting the police to keep the data on themselves,” said attorney Thomas Seabaugh. “It’s like trusting the corporation to tell us when it has polluted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, Gonzalez said he is still crippled with pain from the injuries and is still receiving care. The cost of treatment has continued to add up, from steroid injections to shoulder surgery. In late May, his doctor recommended another surgery on his back, Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This and other incidents have also cost money for local taxpayers. Gonzalez brought a civil rights case against the officers, including one who was present but did nothing to stop the beating, and settled with the city in 2018 for $125,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2014 to 2019 the city paid out more than $1 million in 10 separate settlements for civil rights, excessive force and personal injury claims related to the police. During the same time period the city settled for an additional $1.525 million in seven wrongful death suits, also all related to the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said that he doesn’t go out much anymore because he’s afraid that the police might stop him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to feel safe at home, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I come outside of my house, I think about the attack,” he said. “And I think about police officers doing this to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades working in heavy labor, Gonzalez planned to devote his retirement to art. His acrylic and oil paintings adorn the walls of his house. In his entryway, Pine Mountain in Ojai, California; on his dining room wall, a beautiful Mexican woman. A few more in the living room; others throughout the house. He started painting in seventh grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For [painting] you have to be calm and peaceful,” Gonzalez said. “The pain is going to trigger you out of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he says he hasn’t been painting recently. Sitting for long periods is arduous. It’s too hard to raise his arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexandra Hall, Noah Baustin, Lily Taylor, Eric Ting, Daniel Wu and Ying Zhao contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state, including \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.stanford.edu/\">Stanford Journalism\u003c/a>’s Watchdog Reporting Class, the \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\">UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a> and KQED. The project was formed in 2018 to request and report on previously secret records of police misconduct and use of force in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How We Did It\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We wanted to know how Bakersfield Police Department officers use force and how that force was investigated. In 2019, reporters from the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a collaborative effort involving 40 newsrooms across the state, requested under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1421\">Senate Bill 1421\u003c/a> records about uses of force that resulted in serious bodily injury and cases involving police misconduct from 2014 to 2018. In 2020, the collaboration asked for the records for cases that met the same standards that occurred in 2019. We confirmed with the city attorney that we had all disciplinary records available through the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two researchers read each case and entered information into a database. An editor reviewed the entries to make a final determination. We analyzed data on cases from the Bakersfield Police Department from 2014 to 2019 to learn more about cases where an officer broke someone’s bone. That data included information on the use of force, administrative findings and discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke with officers in the Public Affairs and the Quality Assurance Unit about how they trained officers and review use-of-force cases. The Police Department said that they did not turn over Arturo Gonzalez’s case because they did not know the extent of his injuries at the time. Lt. Kroeker said the cases documented uses of force that were within policy and reviewed in the routine fashion. We did not reach out individually to police officers named in the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11878013/bakersfield-police-broke-31-peoples-bones-in-four-years-no-officer-has-been-disciplined-for-it","authors":["byline_news_11878013"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_5563","news_27626","news_24767","news_25132","news_25418"],"featImg":"news_11878018","label":"news"},"news_11814849":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11814849","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11814849","score":null,"sort":[1588119378000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"15-minutes-of-infamy","title":"15 Minutes of Infamy","publishDate":1588119378,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Two Bakersfield doctors' bogus COVID-19 conclusions were called \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorebakersfielddocs\">\"reckless\" by prominent medical societies\u003c/a> but landed them a guest appearance on Fox News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, who own a chain of urgent care centers, are peddling the notion that coronavirus is no more dangerous than the flu and it's time to end social distancing measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the not-surprising-at-all category, the doctors support President Trump and refuse to wear masks in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one ever said medical school made you smart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two Bakersfield doctors' bogus COVID-19 conclusions were called 'reckless' by prominent medical societies but landed them a guest appearance on Fox News.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1588119378,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":89},"headData":{"title":"15 Minutes of Infamy | KQED","description":"Two Bakersfield doctors' bogus COVID-19 conclusions were called 'reckless' by prominent medical societies but landed them a guest appearance on Fox News.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11814849 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11814849","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/04/28/15-minutes-of-infamy/","disqusTitle":"15 Minutes of Infamy","path":"/news/11814849/15-minutes-of-infamy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two Bakersfield doctors' bogus COVID-19 conclusions were called \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorebakersfielddocs\">\"reckless\" by prominent medical societies\u003c/a> but landed them a guest appearance on Fox News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, who own a chain of urgent care centers, are peddling the notion that coronavirus is no more dangerous than the flu and it's time to end social distancing measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the not-surprising-at-all category, the doctors support President Trump and refuse to wear masks in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one ever said medical school made you smart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11814849/15-minutes-of-infamy","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_457","news_13"],"tags":["news_5563","news_27350","news_27504","news_1323","news_1486","news_20949"],"featImg":"news_11814858","label":"news_18515"},"news_11770458":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11770458","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11770458","score":null,"sort":[1566946324000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chevron-committed-to-stopping-oil-spill-that-started-in-2003","title":"Chevron 'Committed' to Stopping Oil Spill That Started in 2003","publishDate":1566946324,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>An oil spill that may have spewed out \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorechevronspill50mill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 50 million gallons of crude\u003c/a> has been flowing near Chevron wells in Kern County since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State oil and gas regulators are investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, during another Chevron \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761697/the-language-of-oops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surface expression\u003c/a>,\" the long-running spill was flowing at a rate of 3,000 barrels of oil a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sure seems like an awful long time for Chevron and the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources to do something about an oil spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An oil spill that may have spewed out more than 50 million gallons of crude has been flowing near Chevron wells in Kern County since 2003. State oil and gas regulators are investigating.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1566952297,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":86},"headData":{"title":"Chevron 'Committed' to Stopping Oil Spill That Started in 2003 | KQED","description":"An oil spill that may have spewed out more than 50 million gallons of crude has been flowing near Chevron wells in Kern County since 2003. State oil and gas regulators are investigating.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11770458 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11770458","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/27/chevron-committed-to-stopping-oil-spill-that-started-in-2003/","disqusTitle":"Chevron 'Committed' to Stopping Oil Spill That Started in 2003","path":"/news/11770458/chevron-committed-to-stopping-oil-spill-that-started-in-2003","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An oil spill that may have spewed out \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorechevronspill50mill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 50 million gallons of crude\u003c/a> has been flowing near Chevron wells in Kern County since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State oil and gas regulators are investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, during another Chevron \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761697/the-language-of-oops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surface expression\u003c/a>,\" the long-running spill was flowing at a rate of 3,000 barrels of oil a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sure seems like an awful long time for Chevron and the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources to do something about an oil spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11770458/chevron-committed-to-stopping-oil-spill-that-started-in-2003","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_13","news_1397"],"tags":["news_5563","news_424","news_22716","news_26236","news_20320","news_26266","news_20949","news_18125"],"featImg":"news_11770466","label":"news_18515"},"news_11761697":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11761697","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11761697","score":null,"sort":[1563311273000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-language-of-oops","title":"The Language of 'Oops!'","publishDate":1563311273,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorechevronoilspill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">265,000-gallon oil spill\u003c/a> down near Bakersfield? State regulators refer to it as a \"surface expression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you include the water and other gunk that were forced up to the surface it's about 800,000 gallons, but Chevron and the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) are still trying to figure out just how much \"expressed\" onto the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a sick fascination with pleasant-sounding euphemisms for bad things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has called the spill a \"seep\" and mentioned \"fluids to the surface,\" while state regulators seem to use the Orwellian \"surface expression\" term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least no one is calling it \"misplaced energy\" ... yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"That 265,000-gallon oil spill down near Bakersfield? State regulators refer to it as a 'surface expression.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1563573173,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":113},"headData":{"title":"The Language of 'Oops!' | KQED","description":"That 265,000-gallon oil spill down near Bakersfield? State regulators refer to it as a 'surface expression.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11761697 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11761697","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/07/16/the-language-of-oops/","disqusTitle":"The Language of 'Oops!'","path":"/news/11761697/the-language-of-oops","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorechevronoilspill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">265,000-gallon oil spill\u003c/a> down near Bakersfield? State regulators refer to it as a \"surface expression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you include the water and other gunk that were forced up to the surface it's about 800,000 gallons, but Chevron and the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) are still trying to figure out just how much \"expressed\" onto the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a sick fascination with pleasant-sounding euphemisms for bad things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has called the spill a \"seep\" and mentioned \"fluids to the surface,\" while state regulators seem to use the Orwellian \"surface expression\" term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least no one is calling it \"misplaced energy\" ... yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11761697/the-language-of-oops","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_248","news_1397"],"tags":["news_5563","news_424","news_22716","news_26236","news_20320","news_26266","news_20949","news_17663"],"featImg":"news_11761712","label":"news_18515"},"news_11748301":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11748301","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11748301","score":null,"sort":[1558263601000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fresno-diocese-to-reconsider-previously-dismissed-sex-abuse-allegation-against-bakersfield-priest","title":"Allegation Against Bakersfield Priest Previously Deemed 'Unsubstantiated' Now Under Review By Fresno Diocese","publishDate":1558263601,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>More than 20 years after a man first reported he was abused by a Central Valley priest, the Catholic Diocese of Fresno is revisiting the allegation after several other individuals have come forward accusing the same priest. The diocese and Fresno County law enforcement officials had previously said the claim, first raised in 1998, was unsubstantiated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, who has chosen not to disclose his identity, says that Bakersfield priest Monsignor Craig Harrison — who is currently on leave while under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct — inappropriately touched him when he was a teenager in Firebaugh. Harrison denies the allegations, his attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the man’s attorney, Joseph George, the alleged abuse happened over the course of a year from 1992 to 1993 while the man was living at the rectory of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Firebaugh.[aside tag='sexual-abuse-by-priests' label='The Catholic Church in California'] Harrison worked as a priest at St. Joseph from 1992 to 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said that Harrison would inspect his genitals each night when he returned home under the pretext of checking to see if the teen had used drugs. He was 16 and 17 years old at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, the man filed a report about the alleged abuse with the Firebaugh Police Department and the case was referred to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, George said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said Harrison was questioned but not arrested. The sheriff's office ultimately declared the allegation \"unsubstantiated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A case against Craig Harrison was submitted to the Fresno County District Attorney's Office's sexual assault unit that same year, according to a spokesperson, but no charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, the man went to the Fresno Diocese to again report the alleged abuse. Diocesan administrative officials interviewed him at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The interview is curious to say the least,” George said, referring to a transcript he said his client received from diocesan staff when they recently met with him in his home. “It’s biased.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the interview, George said, the former director of human resources and former chancellor of the Fresno Diocese questioned the man and described his allegations as \"harassment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also pointed out that the man’s parents had given their son permission to live in the rectory and that Harrison had spoken to the man’s parents. According to the transcript, the man replied that his parents only spoke Spanish, George said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He felt put off,” George said, “and said, ‘at some point I think I’m gonna read about this in The Fresno Bee when other people come forward. […] This happened to others. I’m sure I’m not alone.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires that clergy and church records custodians report suspected abuse or neglect of children to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way that the information that was conveyed to the diocese in 2002 would not create a reasonable suspicion of child abuse,” George said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nGeorge said the man also provided diocesan personnel with the names of other potential victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said he never — capital 'N' — heard back from the diocese until this current flurry of reported allegations,” George said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744376/prosecutors-to-audit-fresno-catholic-diocese-files-for-potential-sex-abuse-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three other men\u003c/a> have come forward alleging Harrison touched them inappropriately or engaged in other sexual misconduct with them as teenagers. Two allege Harrison inspected their genitals under similar circumstances. 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I’m sure I’m not alone.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires that clergy and church records custodians report suspected abuse or neglect of children to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way that the information that was conveyed to the diocese in 2002 would not create a reasonable suspicion of child abuse,” George said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nGeorge said the man also provided diocesan personnel with the names of other potential victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said he never — capital 'N' — heard back from the diocese until this current flurry of reported allegations,” George said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744376/prosecutors-to-audit-fresno-catholic-diocese-files-for-potential-sex-abuse-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three other men\u003c/a> have come forward alleging Harrison touched them inappropriately or engaged in other sexual misconduct with them as teenagers. 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