The Los Angeles County

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department violated the U.S. Constitution and federal laws in its treatment of blacks and other residents of public housing in the Antelope Valley, the U.S. Justice Department concluded.

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Among the Justice Department’s findings, according to the statement:

• African Americans, and to a lesser extent Latinos, are more likely to be stopped and/or searched than whites, even when controlling for factors other than race, such as crime rates;

• The widespread use of unlawful backseat detentions violating the 4th Amendment and L.A. County Sheriff’s Department policy;

• A pattern of unreasonable force, including a pattern of the use of force against handcuffed individuals;

• A pattern of intimidation and harassment of African American housing choice voucher holders by sheriff’s deputies;

• Inadequate implementation of accountability measures to intervene on unconstitutional conduct has allowed these problems to occur.

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