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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",
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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. 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"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. 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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. 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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. 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"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>",
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I told him that I will support him and be an advocate for him in any way that I can,” said Dominguez in an email.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Fresno Diocese chancellor Teresa Dominguez']‘[I] told him that I believe him, and apologized for the pain this matter has caused him. I told him that I will support him and be an advocate in any way that I can.’[/pullquote]Dominguez said current diocesan administrative staff only recently became aware of the man’s allegation from 2002. She said that she was working in a different capacity at a church in Hanford and had no knowledge of the allegation at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s attorney, Kyle Humphrey, questioned the credibility of the man who alleged the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This allegation, if it is the one that was previously reported to Firebaugh, was unfounded by the Firebaugh Police Department originally and afterwards,” Humphrey said. “And if it is the same person, we believe we are in possession of interviews that, again, if it is the same person, we believe will establish a complete lack of credibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphrey also criticized the Fresno Diocese for talking publicly about the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that a member of the diocese would come out and place my client in a false light, and essentially accuse my client of sexual offense, just shows me how little regard this diocese has for priests. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of the California Report Magazine’s look at how migration from Oklahoma changed California, host Sasha Khokha spoke with Robert Price, author of \u003ca href=\"https://heydaybooks.com/book/the-bakersfield-sound/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">“The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music.”\u003c/a> He’s also a longtime columnist and the former executive editor at The Bakersfield Californian. Excerpts from the interview have been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether the word “Okie” is a derogatory term:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point in time it was. But over time it became kind of a point of pride [a symbol of their attitude of survival] . Okies called themselves ‘Okies’ and they let everybody else call them Okies as well. Every once in a while you’ll still hear an old-timers say, “Hey that’s not the term we like to hear,” but it’s pretty well accepted now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBeOddejiGw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what defines the Bakersfield sound:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not so much a sound as it is a time and place. It was just a unique period of time between about 1949 and 1970 when Bakersfield was the hot spot, the center of the country music universe. The two main practitioners are Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, and their sounds are not really very much alike. Buck has a rockabilly thing going on, will a little bit of norteño thrown in there. Merle Haggard had more of a western swing and a jazz sensibility. The one thing they all had in common besides that locale was the instrument of choice, the Fender Telecaster. It cut through the bass line, cut through the drums and reverberated off the aluminum siding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEstJ98TcM\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Merle Haggard’s lyrics about working people:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a blue collar guy. His dad worked for the railroad, and he himself had a lot of manual labor jobs. His audiences were people that worked in the fields picking cotton and picking fruit. He grew up in a converted boxcar in Oildale, adjacent to the Kern River Oil Field, which is one of the biggest oil fields in the lower 48 states. Between oil and agriculture, these were working class people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11728205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut-1200x788.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some early Capitol Records marketing for Merle Haggard \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robert Price Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the ways “Okies” changed California culture:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Okies that came west in the mid ’30s through the early ’50s brought with them not just music, but they brought a distinct way of talking. They brought a religious sensibility that hadn’t been on the West Coast before, more of a “praise the Lord out loud” kind of religion. They brought some conservative politics with them. It completely changed California, certainly Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68cbjlLFl4U&start_radio=1&list=RD68cbjlLFl4U&t=8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Merle Haggard’s] “Okie from Muskogee” really encapsulates those differences. The references to the shaggy long hair in San Francisco, the marijuana smoking. The message was “we’re not like those people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Buck Owens’ “Rags to Rhinestone” story – and how he rebelled against Nashville:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buck Owens early on told himself “I am never going to be poor.” And he lived his life trying to be as unlike his childhood as he possibly could be in terms of his financial circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728206\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728206\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35393_32MinnieBuck-qut-800x1008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35393_32MinnieBuck-qut-800x1008.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35393_32MinnieBuck-qut-160x202.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35393_32MinnieBuck-qut-1020x1286.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35393_32MinnieBuck-qut-952x1200.jpg 952w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35393_32MinnieBuck-qut.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visiting performers Tommy Collins and Buck Owens are shown with Minnie Pearl in this photograph taken in May 1954. These photos are part of a 60-photo exhibition coming to the Kern County Museum at the end of February. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Buck Owens Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Country music out of Nashville became a lot more orchestrated, with strings and beautiful backing harmonies. In Bakersfield, Buck Owens led a sort of rebellion. Rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll became more of an influence. And as it turned out the American listening public really liked his sound. And that’s kind of how Bakersfield stole that momentum away from Nashville and kind of became the center of the country music universe for a half a generation or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728207\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-800x634.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-1020x809.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-1200x951.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens sing “Streets of Bakersfield” in 1988. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Buck Owens Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On women in the “Bakersfield Sound” scene:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Shepherd recorded the first hit associated with the Bakersfield sound: a duet with Frank Husky called “Dear John.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx2LK8lx7Zo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Shepherd was from Visalia, but she kind of gravitated down to Bakersfield, and then went to Nashville. She lived out a very successful career in Nashville as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728204\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-800x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-800x607.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-1020x774.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-1200x911.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Wills, Billy Mize, Jean Shepard, Johnny Caviello (drummer for Bob Wills), and Bill Woods. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kern County Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the Bakersfield Sound changed American music:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know you hear so many artists today, country music artists, and rock ‘n’ roll artists, who point to people like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard and the music of the Bakersfield sound as being so influential in their careers. They were both great songwriters in very different sorts of ways, and I think that songwriting sensibility kind of seeped into the minds of a lot of songwriters who came later. It kind of got into the national DNA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what we can learn from the “Okie” experience in California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of America is a story of migration. The migration of the Okies is a huge part of American history. People move and they bring their influences to the places they go, and they change those places. The Okies changed California tremendously. Migration is an ongoing thing. The movement of people changes our history.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Between oil and agriculture, these were working class people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11728205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35392_18MerlePostcard-qut-1200x788.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some early Capitol Records marketing for Merle Haggard \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robert Price Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the ways “Okies” changed California culture:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Okies that came west in the mid ’30s through the early ’50s brought with them not just music, but they brought a distinct way of talking. 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These photos are part of a 60-photo exhibition coming to the Kern County Museum at the end of February. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Buck Owens Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Country music out of Nashville became a lot more orchestrated, with strings and beautiful backing harmonies. In Bakersfield, Buck Owens led a sort of rebellion. Rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll became more of an influence. And as it turned out the American listening public really liked his sound. And that’s kind of how Bakersfield stole that momentum away from Nashville and kind of became the center of the country music universe for a half a generation or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728207\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-800x634.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-1020x809.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut-1200x951.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35394_36BuckDwiFair-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens sing “Streets of Bakersfield” in 1988. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Buck Owens Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On women in the “Bakersfield Sound” scene:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Shepherd recorded the first hit associated with the Bakersfield sound: a duet with Frank Husky called “Dear John.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Qx2LK8lx7Zo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Qx2LK8lx7Zo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Jean Shepherd was from Visalia, but she kind of gravitated down to Bakersfield, and then went to Nashville. She lived out a very successful career in Nashville as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11728204\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11728204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-800x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-800x607.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-1020x774.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut-1200x911.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35391_05WillsShepard-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Wills, Billy Mize, Jean Shepard, Johnny Caviello (drummer for Bob Wills), and Bill Woods. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kern County Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the Bakersfield Sound changed American music:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know you hear so many artists today, country music artists, and rock ‘n’ roll artists, who point to people like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard and the music of the Bakersfield sound as being so influential in their careers. They were both great songwriters in very different sorts of ways, and I think that songwriting sensibility kind of seeped into the minds of a lot of songwriters who came later. It kind of got into the national DNA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what we can learn from the “Okie” experience in California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of America is a story of migration. The migration of the Okies is a huge part of American history. People move and they bring their influences to the places they go, and they change those places. The Okies changed California tremendously. Migration is an ongoing thing. The movement of people changes our history.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bakersfield is a legendary country and honky-tonk music spot, and the birthplace of the \"Bakersfield sound,\" defined by artists like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. But the Central Valley city is also home to a reggae soul band called \u003ca href=\"http://smarturl.it/clmn160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Soul Chance\u003c/a>. When record collectors first hear their music on vinyl, some assume the band is straight out of the 1960s, but The Soul Chance was formed in 2017. They capture that retro sound by recording with old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is an excerpt from an interview with band members A.J. Brewer and Nico Collins. They talk about replicating early reggae and working as a couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11713224\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11713224 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34489_soul-chance-pic3-qut-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34489_soul-chance-pic3-qut-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34489_soul-chance-pic3-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34489_soul-chance-pic3-qut-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34489_soul-chance-pic3-qut-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34489_soul-chance-pic3-qut.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico Collins and A.J. Brewer of the Bakersfield group \"The Soul Chance\" recently released their latest 45 on Colemine Records. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Soul Chance)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On being from Bakersfield:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A.J. Brewer: Where the I-5 is it's all fields and agriculture, so people are like, ‘Oh, that must be a little farm town.’ Bakersfield is not a small town. Nobody's walking around with a straw hat and a piece of straw hanging out of their mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what makes them different from mainstream reggae groups:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nico Collins: When [a lot of people] think of reggae music, Bob Marley comes to mind. But a lot of people don't know that Bob Marley did ska. So the genre of music that we do is something that Bob Marley did himself and it’s the style of early reggae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On capturing the sound of early reggae:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A.J. Brewer: The Soul Chance basically mimics the old sounds by recording on analog equipment such as reel-to-reel tape. The singing has a lot to do with capturing the styles of the older artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqp1I--gwN6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nico Collins: There's something to be said about stepping back and just actually holding a note out without having to do all these runs. Each member of The Soul Chance has a different strength that we bring to the table, to pay respect to the traditional reggae style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On rewriting Billy Stewart’s classic “Sitting in the Park”: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nico Collins: In Billy Stewart's version, he's waiting on his love. In our version, the woman sees him sitting in the park and doesn't appreciate that he's trying to paint the picture that he's the victim. He is messing around and she knows it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Whether Democrats or Republicans win the U.S. House of Representatives in the November election, the next speaker of the House is likely to be from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Republicans hold onto their majority, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy would be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11662095/ryan-anoints-mccarthy-to-be-his-successor-as-house-speaker\">odds-on favorite\u003c/a> to become speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy’s home district, \u003ca href=\"https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/cong_dist/cd113/cd_based/ST06/CD113_CA23.pdf\">California's 23rd\u003c/a>, includes most of Bakersfield, parts of Kern and Tulare counties, a slice of Los Angeles County and some smaller Central Valley towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent evening at Aera Park in west Bakersfield, parent Will Medveal watched a Little League baseball game with his 1-year-old daughter, Cleo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're pro-McCarthy around here,” Medveal said, chuckling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2016-general/sov/2016-complete-sov.pdf\">almost 70 percent\u003c/a> of voters in his district supported McCarthy’s re-election and a majority voted for President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can be surprising for Californians who don’t get out much to rural parts of the state, said Medveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think most people think California is you know, like the beach and the surf and Hollywood stars on the sidewalk and such. I don't think they understand that there's anything in the middle, ya know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another parent, Kevin Cobb, who was keeping score of the game, said he thinks McCarthy represents Bakersfield well because it's a \"blue-collar town.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone here is more conservative in nature,\" Cobb said. \"This is more of a lesser government area. Much more conservative, family values -- that whole approach to life -- as opposed to bigger government, more liberal policies and things that the Democratic Party would typically represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there was some disappointment in the community that he didn't pursue the speaker spot last time,\" Cobb added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2016-17AgReport.pdf\">highest agricultural-producing county\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/faqs/#Q1\">entire nation\u003c/a> -- and it’s where McCarthy \u003ca href=\"https://kevinmccarthy.house.gov/about\">cut his teeth on politics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-800x564.jpg\" alt='Republican Consultant Cathy Abernathy in her office at Western Pacific Research. Abernathy says if McCarthy were to become speaker, it would be \"a real treat\" for Bakersfield.' width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-960x677.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican consultant Cathy Abernathy in her office at Western Pacific Research. Abernathy says if McCarthy were to become speaker, it would be \"a real treat\" for Bakersfield. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the offices of \u003ca href=\"https://www.westernpacificresearch.com/\">Western Pacific Research\u003c/a>, a Republican consulting firm, Cathy Abernathy and her late husband Mark ran the campaigns of locally grown up-and-coming Republican candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abernathy, who is still running campaigns and is president of Western Pacific Research, said having McCarthy as speaker would mean issues that people care about around here would get more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We produce more oil in Kern County than Oklahoma. That’s the pills you take that have that little plastic coating? That’s petroleum. So we have defense, we have agriculture, and we have energy. All right here,” Abernathy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Bakersfield residents Cheryl Hill and Jay Mendenhall talk politics at Kroll Dog Park in Bakersfield. Hill said she supports President Trump, but thinks McCarthy could be doing more for the residents of his district.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-1200x786.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-960x629.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DogParkBakersfield-520x340.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bakersfield residents Cheryl Hill and Jay Mendenhall talk politics at Kroll Dog Park in Bakersfield. Hill said she supports President Trump, but thinks McCarthy could be doing more for the residents of his district. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around dusk at Kroll Dog Park in the southwest part of Bakersfield, it was a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Hill, who was at the park with her chocolate Lab, Oliver, said she is a big fan of President Trump, but she thinks Kevin McCarthy should use his proximity to the president to stick up for Bakersfield more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that I’ve heard him say, that he’s going to do, it seems like he doesn't do it. Take care of your hometown first. That’s your priority,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU Bakersfield student Jenni Chun said that with so much agriculture, this area is home to a large immigrant community that sometimes gets overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recently there was raids here with ICE. What about that? I want someone who can be more in tune with that kind of stuff, and really understand where Kern County's population is going and where things are gonna be in the next 10 years,” Chun said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Abernathy says if McCarthy were to become speaker, it would be \"a real treat\" for Bakersfield.' width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-960x677.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Abernathy-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican consultant Cathy Abernathy in her office at Western Pacific Research. Abernathy says if McCarthy were to become speaker, it would be \"a real treat\" for Bakersfield. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the offices of \u003ca href=\"https://www.westernpacificresearch.com/\">Western Pacific Research\u003c/a>, a Republican consulting firm, Cathy Abernathy and her late husband Mark ran the campaigns of locally grown up-and-coming Republican candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abernathy, who is still running campaigns and is president of Western Pacific Research, said having McCarthy as speaker would mean issues that people care about around here would get more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We produce more oil in Kern County than Oklahoma. That’s the pills you take that have that little plastic coating? That’s petroleum. So we have defense, we have agriculture, and we have energy. 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