The Bakersfield Police Impact Team, Community Vitality Unit, and various other agencies recently performed an encampment cleanup operation near railroad tracks in Southwest Bakersfield, resulting in 12 arrests and the placement of three individuals in housing services.
Lieutenant Nicole Anderberg of the Bakersfield Police Department described the scope of what officers encountered during the operation.
“You’re going to see in the photographs tents, trash left behind, blankets, clothing, food left behind, waste, sometimes human waste, so it can become quite unsightly,” Anderberg said…