[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap] cop stops a guy for standing in the right-hand turn lane of a busy street while holding an electric scooter, and then pats him down. In this particular case, the police officer didn’t have any justifiable reason for searching him, according to a report released Friday by the Office of the Inspector General that looked at 91 such cases.
“The pat-down was not documented, nor was there any apparent reason to conduct the search during such a low-level detention,” the report concluded.
More than half of similar searches conducted by Los Angeles gang officers on people they stopped last summer were potentially unconstitutional, as the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects “against unreasonable searches and seizures.” The L.A. Police Commission discussed the findings of the audit by the Inspector General at its meeting in downtown on Tuesday morning.
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