{"id":185325,"date":"2026-02-20T00:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185325\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:24:17","slug":"gov-newsom-awards-107m-in-gun-violence-prevention-grants-bakersfield-to-get-nearly-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185325\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Newsom awards $107M in gun violence prevention grants; Bakersfield to get nearly $5M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Gov. Gavin Newsom is awarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2026\/02\/19\/governor-newsom-awards-107-million-to-prevent-gun-violence-and-improve-community-safety-across-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$107 million in state funding to multiple cities, including Bakersfield<\/a> and Delano, as part of an effort to curb gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield will receive nearly $5 million from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grants.ca.gov\/grants\/california-violence-intervention-prevention-cohort-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California Violence Intervention and Prevention program<\/a>, also known as CalVIP.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, more than $350 million has been invested in the program. The governor\u2019s office said recent data shows violent crime is down 12% in California\u2019s major cities.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>In Bakersfield, 2024 was the city\u2019s safest year since before the COVID-19 pandemic, with 60% fewer shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield will receive a total of $4,899,000, and the City of Delano Police Department is set to receive $2,000,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Gov. Gavin Newsom is awarding $107 million in state funding to multiple cities, including Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-185325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}