In 2022, the city of Bakersfield and the police department launched a gun violence reduction strategy. Since then, city officials say the city is safer now prior to the pandemic.

Bakersfield city officials said Friday gun violence is down across the city and attributed the decline to a partnership between the city and several community groups. City Manager Christian Clegg — ...

Two people with the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang were arrested after deputies allegedly found drugs and and a loaded gun ...

Kern County Sheriff’s Office arrested two members of the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang in Mojave Tuesday and seized a firearm and methamphetamine in the ...

Bakersfield Felon Arrested During Kern County Gang Suppression Investigation is Found with Guns, Ammo, and Drugs ...

Kern County Sheriff’s Office officials report that on 6, 2025, deputies from the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Gang Sup ...

Darius Key, a member of the Country Boy Crips street gang, was found guilty of murder and attempted murder for a 2023 shooting that killed one man and paralyzed ...

Testimony delivered at the ongoing trial of three accused Aryan Brotherhood members delved into Los Angeles County's ...

Officials say the gang’s violence began to intensify following the 2021 murder of Bloodhound Brim member Davonte Lewis, ...

Authorities slapped the 14 defendants — all alleged members of the 59 Brims and Bloodhound Brims street gangs — with murder, ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they'd struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship ...

This time, though, the government would also aim to send members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to Salvadoran prisons, said Mauricio Claver-Carone, the State Department’s special envoy ...