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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has come under fire before for how deputies stop and search people.

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The agency’s Domestic Highway Enforcement Team, which pulled over motorists on the 5 Freeway in search of drugs, was suspended in 2018 after a Times investigation found Latinos were disproportionately targeted. latimes.com/local/lanow/la…
The county’s inspector general later found the team “had a constitutionally troubling impact on Latino drivers.”latimes.com/local/lanow/la…
And a federal investigation several years ago found that sheriff’s deputies systematically harassed Black and Latino residents in the Antelope Valley, leading to a consent decree.

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