BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The city of Bakersfield is slated to extend their agreements with the Wendale Davis Foundation and the Community Action Partnership of Kern to continue to reduce gun violence in the city, according to the Bakersfield City Council meeting agenda.
According to the agenda, Bakersfield has been seeing a continued decline in group-related gun violence after the Board of State and Community Corrections awarded the city a multi-year grant, titled “California Violence Intervention and Prevention, Cohort 4.”
Bakersfield received $3,114,625 in total, the agenda says. The grant supports a “socioecological model” with a public health approach to improve Bakersfield’s efforts to reduce gun violence…