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Recruit Training Officer discovers you have to be ‘cruel to be kind’ at Bakersfield Police Department
The first thing you notice about Officer Macarena Garner is she’s about 5 feet tall. Maybe 5’1” when she’s wearing…
Column: Don’t wear sandals to Bakersfield Police Department’s S.W.A.T school
We arrived at Bakersfield Police Department’s S.W.A.T (Special Weapons and Tactics) school tucked away in the outskirts of downtown shortly…
Standing room only left a line of officers and staff lining the back wall of the Rose Center ballroom during…
The man in the Audi wanted oral sex. Cruising down Beach Boulevard last month, in broad daylight just five days…
It was standing-room only in the Anaheim PD auditorium as the sergeant stepped up to the microphone. For the next…
As the horrors of the mass shooting in Las Vegas played out on the evening of Oct. 1, 2017, Lauren…
She had planned on a speech, but pretty much ditched it at the last moment. At a Jan. 8, 2020…
As one member of the Thompson family retires from the Pasadena Police Department, leaving behind a legacy of service to…