Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions and First Amendment retaliation cases. Mr. Steering in an Expert and Specialist in suing the police in federal court for constitutional violations in the City of Redlands , throughout San Bernardino County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal court in Alabama and in the District of Columbia. Mr. Steering many years of experience and acquired knowledge can help you maximize your chances of actually winning your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. THE POLICE IN REDLANDS ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST Redlands is a city in San Bernardino County, California, with an estimated population of 74,000. Unlike many cities in San Bernardino County the City of Redlands has its own police department, headquartered at 30 Cajon Street, Redlands, California. The Redlands Police Department has a long and well-earned reputation for brutality, false arrests and malicious criminal prosecutions. That police agency has frequently been sued for very questionable shootings and general corruption. See, Redlands settles lawsuit for $1 million in fatal police shooting (32-year-old man’s parents claim their son was killed ‘execution-style’ after he woke up distraught and intoxicated from a New Year’s Eve celebration), San Bernardino Sun, December 20, 2024; Redlands police shoot, kill domestic violence suspect, KTLA 5 News, January 1, 2023 (32-year-old man from Redlands was shot and killed by Redlands police officers after he allegedly “made an overt act toward them” while armed with a knife), Redlands police shoot, wound woman allegedly armed with knife (Redlands woman allegedly armed with a knife was shot and wounded by Redlands Police Department officer) KTLA 5 News, May 24, 2024; City of Redlands settles lawsuit over controversial 2020 traffic stop, Community Forward Redlands, September 15 2023; Redlands deputy police chief claims city officials tried to bury evidence in fatal train accident (Department veteran claims he was ‘shut down’ and told to stay silent about a potentially dangerous condition where a woman and her daughter were killed), Redlands Daily Facts, July 19, 2023. However, most acts of Redlands Police Department beatings, tasings, pepper-sprayings and false arrests of innocents take place in the context of “Contempt of Cop” situations, where civilians verbally protest or verbally challenge police orders or actions. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw. The right to verbally protest or verbally challenge police orders or actions has long been established. In City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987), in striking down a City of Houston, Texas Municipal Ordinance that criminalized interrupting a police officer in the performance of his/her duties, Associate United States Supreme Court Justice William Brennan held: “The Houston ordinance is much more sweeping than the municipal ordinance struck down in Lewis. It is not limited to fighting words nor even to obscene or opprobrious language, but prohibits speech that “in any manner . . . interrupt[s]” an officer. The Constitution does not allow such speech to be made a crime. The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.” However, if you verbally protest or verbally challenge a Redlands Police Department police officer, you very well find yourself being beaten, tased, pepper-sprayed, falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for some fabricated “resistance offense” such as violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing a officer), Cal. Penal Code § 240/241 (assault on officer), Cal. Penal Code § 242 / 243(b) & (c) (battery on officer causing injury) and Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (assault on officer with the weapon). IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. Mr. Steering’s many years of experience and knowledge in suing the police can help you maximize your chances of winning your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters. Just because the police violated your constitutional rights doesn’t mean that you can do anything about it. In order to “do something about it”, to enforce your constitutional rights, it takes a great deal of experience, insights, skill and savvy. Jerry L. Steering has been suing police agencies for constitutional violations since 1984. He has the experience, insights, skill and savvy to actually win your police misconduct civil rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters. If you are the victim of police misconduct, Jerry L. Steering can help you. Call Jerry L. Steering, Esq. at (949) 474-1849, or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com . FREE CASE EVALUATION
