LA County Sheriff's Department 'ignored red flags' about team that stopped Latino drivers.

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department team that pulled over thousands of motorists on the 5 Freeway in search of drugs "had a constitutionally troubling impact on Latino drivers," the county inspector general's office concluded in a widely anticipated report.

In a rebuke of the Sheriff's Department released Friday, the county Office of Inspector General said that not only were Latinos targeted at a much higher rate, but that the effectiveness of the sheriff's special team - which was created to stop the flow of drugs in the Santa Clarita Valley area - was unclear.

Moreover, the report said, the effect on Latinos has "the potential to negatively impact the public's trust" in the Sheriff's Department.

It faulted sheriff's officials for failing to provide proper oversight, allowing the team to "operate unchecked" until it was suspended on Nov. 16, a day after County Inspector General Max Huntsman verbally called it "inherently built to violate the constitutional rights of a vast number of people passing through the I-5 Freeway."

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