BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Sometimes it seems like violent crime is getting worse and worse, but the fact is, by at least one telling measure, it’s getting a little better.

There’s been a drop in the number of gunshot wounds coming into Kern County’s only trauma center, Kern Medical -- and just as significantly, gunshot wounds as a percentage of the total trauma cases treated at the county hospital in east Bakersfield.

How? Hard to know with absolute certainty but here’s a rock-solid bet: Intervention, pre- and post-violence, by a key Kern Medical community partner, Garden Pathways.

The nonprofit, created by the Reverend David Goh in 1997 and led by his CEO sister, Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh, is a mentorship program that works with gang members and others to show them another way.

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