Editing Bakersfield, California (section)

=== Crime ===
{{further|Bakersfield Police Department}}
The number of violent crimes recorded by the Bakersfield Police Department in its 2008 Crime Reports was 5,961.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/police/crime_stats_app/index.html |title=Crime Statistics for Bakersfield |work=Bakersfield Police Department |date=2009 |access-date=December 5, 2009 |archive-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012012425/http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/police/crime_stats_app/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 27 of those were murders and [[homicides]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bakersfield.com/images/maps/other/homicide/x801452993/Homicides-up-for-2008 |title=Homicides up for 2008 |publisher=The Bakersfield Californian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402163805/http://www.bakersfield.com/archive/x801452993/Homicides-up-for-2008 |archive-date=April 2, 2015}}</ref> Data collected by Bakersfield Police Department, an anti-gang program under the city of Bakersfield, shows that the city of Bakersfield has experienced an increase in [[gang]] membership and gang activity since the early 2000s.

==== Jails ====
The [[Bakersfield Police Department]] has a holding area, but [[inmate]]s are transported to the [[Kern County]] Central Receiving Facility in Bakersfield. Sentenced criminals are held outside the city's limits at the Lerdo Detention Facility.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jailinfo.org/index.php/Kern_County |title=Jails In Bakersfield / Kern County |work=source |date=2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428120535/http://www.jailinfo.org/index.php/Kern_County |archive-date=April 28, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The Kern County Sheriff's Office, Detentions Bureau has an average daily inmate population of approximately 2,500 inmates.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/Pages/default.aspx |title=Inmate population |work=Kern County Sheriff's – Detentions |date=2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927042654/http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=September 27, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The primary facility for receiving inmates arrested in the Bakersfield area is the Central Receiving Facility.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/CRF/Pages/default.aspx |title=Kern Sheriff – Central Receiving Facility |date=2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100924004918/http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/CRF/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=September 24, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In addition, there is the Lerdo Complex, which consists of three facilities:
# The Lerdo Minimum Security Facility holds inmates of lower security levels.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/Lerdo/Minimum/Pages/default.aspx |title=Kern Sheriff – Minimum Security |date=2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927073841/http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/Lerdo/Minimum/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=September 27, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
#The Lerdo Pre-Trial Facility holds inmates of higher security levels.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/Lerdo/PreTrial/Pages/default.aspx |title=Kern Sheriff – Pre-Trial Facility |date=2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219025823/http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/Lerdo/PreTrial/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=December 19, 2016}}</ref>
#The Lerdo Max/Med Security Facility holds overflow inmates from the Pre-Trial Facility.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/Lerdo/MaxMed/Pages/default.aspx |title=Kern Sheriff – Max-Med Security |date=2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927073836/http://www.kernsheriff.com/Detentions/Lerdo/MaxMed/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=September 27, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>