BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Eleven people were arrested Wednesday following a clean-up operation of homeless encampments along the Kern River embankments, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. BPD’s Community Vitality Unit received numerous complaints about encampments along the north and south Kern River embankments west of Chester Avenue, towards the Uplands of the Kern River [...] ...read more read less