Editing Bakersfield, California (section)

==== Police ====
{{Main|Bakersfield Police Department}}
The Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) is the agency responsible for [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]]. It has over 363 officers and 100 professional staff, covering an area of {{convert|145|sqmi|km2}}, serving an urban population of more than 800,000. The current [[police chief|chief]] of the department is Greg Terry.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bakersfield.com/news/lyle-martin-selected-as-new-bakersfield-police-chief/article_b069bde9-6688-592d-8efc-2348767d1e9d.html |title=Lyle Martin selected as new Bakersfield Police chief |last=Kotowski |first=Jason |date=December 6, 2016 |website=Bakersfield.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161208124431/http://www.bakersfield.com/news/lyle-martin-selected-as-new-bakersfield-police-chief/article_b069bde9-6688-592d-8efc-2348767d1e9d.html |archive-date=December 8, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> The department protects the city, split between two areas: West area and East area, with police headquarters in the east and the west substation serving west Bakersfield. The department administration comprises the police chief, one assistant chief, four [[Police captain|captains]], and eleven lieutenants.<ref>[http://www.ci.bakersfield.ca.us/POLICE/index.htm Home Page] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218074913/http://www.ci.bakersfield.ca.us/police/index.htm |date=December 18, 2009 }}. Bakersfield Police Department. Retrieved March 13, 2012.</ref>

The department headquarters are located at 1601 Truxtun Avenue. The West Substation is located at 1301 Buena Vista Road. Satellite offices are located on E. 11th Street and E. White Lane. The department pistol range is located on Truxtun Avenue, with the K-9 training grounds next door to the range. The department training academy is located on Norris Road and is in conjunction with the Kern County Sheriff's Department.

The 2015 Mapping Police Violence study calculated that Bakersfield police killed civilians at the highest rate in the U.S., logging 13.6 killings per million people, compared to the U.S. average of 3.6.<ref name=bbc-20161214>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38309192 |title=Bakersfield police shoot pensioner carrying crucifix |work=BBC News |date=December 14, 2016 |access-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-date=December 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161214235022/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38309192 |url-status=live }}</ref> In all, 13 people were killed in 2015 by BPD Officers and 27 people were killed by law enforcement officers in Kern County, which has a population of approximately 900,000.<ref>{{cite web |title=2015 Police Violence Report |url=https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015/ |website=Mapping Police Violence |access-date=June 6, 2019 |archive-date=June 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606174622/https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Guardian reported that law enforcement officers in Kern County, California, killed more people per capita than in any other American county in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/01/the-county-kern-county-deadliest-police-killings |title=The County: the story of America's deadliest police |author=Jon Swaine |newspaper=the Guardian |date=December 2015 |access-date=December 14, 2016 |archive-date=December 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161214042954/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/01/the-county-kern-county-deadliest-police-killings |url-status=live }}</ref>