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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new analysis by the ACLU contends Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office deputies spend an exorbitant amount of time pulling over drivers for minor traffic violations, a practice that disproportionately harms Black and brown communities while wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars each year. Roughly two-thirds of time that deputies spend on stops is for traffic violations — namely things like busted tail lights or expired registration tags — according to the report from Catalyst California and the ACLU of Southern California. Those relatively minor violations often ser…