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According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, California had 509 law enforcement agencies employing 79,431 sworn peace officers, about 217 for each 100,000 residents.
93301. Area Code. 661. Downtown is the central business district for Bakersfield, California. It contains several of the city's major theaters, sports complex, museums, and historical landmarks. What is considered to be “downtown” Bakersfield varies. Starting from the north and traveling clockwise, Central Bakersfield is bound by the Kern ...
The Kern County child abuse cases started the day care sexual abuse hysteria of the 1980s in Kern County, California. [1] The cases involved allegations of satanic ritual abuse by a sex ring against as many as 60 children who testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years in prison.
State Route 178. State Route 178 ( SR 178) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that exists in two constructed segments. The gap in between segments is connected by various local roads and State Route 190 through Death Valley National Park. The western segment runs from State Route 99 in Bakersfield and over the Walker Pass in the ...
Kern County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 909,235. [9] Its county seat is Bakersfield. [11] Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county spans the southern end of the Central Valley.
Kaiser Permanente (/ ˈ k aɪ z ər p ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɛ n t eɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is made up of three distinct but interdependent groups of entities: the Kaiser ...
Average speed. 25 mph (40 km/h) The Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway was a streetcar company which operated between Bakersfield and Sumner (later Kern City), in California. Later, after Kern City was annexed by Bakersfield, the streetcar company operated completely in Bakersfield. The company was originally formed in 1887, under the name ...
Adventist Health Bakersfield is a 254-bed hospital in Bakersfield and serving Kern County, California. The medical campus is part of Adventist Health and previously was called San Joaquin Community Hospital. History. Margaret Quinn and Mary O’Donnell arrived in Bakersfield, California in 1905 to take up nursing duties at the St. Clair Hospital.