{"id":465049,"date":"2026-09-16T01:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465049\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:16:58","slug":"bakersfield-police-report-fewer-dui-arrests-burglaries-more-sexual-assaults-between-july-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465049\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police report fewer DUI arrests, burglaries, more sexual assaults between July, August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Bakersfield Police Department has released new crime statistics for the month of August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In August alone, BPD reported 24,070 calls made to 911, arrested 1,164 people, reported 163 vehicle thefts and two homicides, 44 robberies and 113 aggravated assault cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department also stated that in August they responded to 83 burglaries, 16 sexual assault and 189 domestic violence reports and 57 DUI arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/plus\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BPD said there were a total of 62,441 calls made into the department&#8217;s Communications Center last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Compared to July, BPD said the number of services calls for vehicle thefts, burglaries, DUI arrests, aggravated assault and domestic violence reports had decreased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alternatively, the department said the number of robberies, total arrests, homicides and sexual assault instances increased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Bakersfield Police Department has released new crime statistics for the month of August.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[32950,151,153,152,324,183122,29555,328,23693,2531,165064],"class_list":["post-465049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-domestic-violence-reports","tag-dui-arrests","tag-kget","tag-robberies","tag-sexual-assault","tag-vehicle-thefts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465049","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=465049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}