LOS ANGELES For years, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies have used an aggressive strategy on people riding bicycles: Stop them for minor violations and then search them for drugs or guns.
It has resulted in tens of thousands of cyclists being pulled over and searched in recent years, even when
A Times' investigation found a Los Angeles Sheriff's strategy of stopping and searching bicyclists is ineffective. The practice persists, in part, because of a culture that prizes arrests, The Times found.