Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions, wrongful deaths 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 Canyon Lake, throughout Riverside County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal courts in Alabama and in the District of Columbia.
“THE YOUNG LAWYER KNOWS THE LAW, BUT THE OLD LAWYER KNOWS THE JUDGE”.
Mr. Steering’s 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. If you cannot win your Civil Rights Police Misconduct Lawsuit then you have no rights, because you have no way to enforce them, and a right without a remedy in the real world does not exist.
THE POLICE IN CANYON LAKE ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
Canyon Lake is a city and gated community in Riverside County, California, on the Canyon Lake reservoir. The City of Canyon Lake was incorporated on December 1, 1990. Canyon Lake has an estimated population of 11, 300 residents. The demographics of Canyon Lake are White 69%, Hispanic 17%, Two or more races 7%, Asian 4%, African American 2%, American Indian or Alaska native 1% and Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0%.
Notwithstanding that Canyon Lake is an upscale gated and planned community, crimes still rears its ugly head in that city; especially crime by Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs.
The City of Canyon Lake contracts with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for its police services, that deploys out of the Lake Elsinore Station, located at 333 Limited Street, Lake Elsinore, California. The Lake Elsinore Station of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has a terrible and well-earned reputation for having some of the most brutal and dishonest deputies in the Sheriff’s Department.
For example, Attorney Jerry L. Steering recently obtained a $1,300,000.0 settlement from the County of Riverside for two Lake Elsinore Station deputy sheriffs beating, falsely arresting and maliciously prosecuting Wildomar, California man at his own home who was playing his music too loudly. See, Riverside County pays $1.3 million to Wildomar man whose face was broken by deputies, Riverside Press-Enterprise, June 13, 2025.
One of the two deputy sheriffs involved in beating and attempting to frame Kenneth Ciccarelli, Michael Gene Schmidt, was arrested by the same Riverside County Sheriff’s Department on August 7, 2025 for unauthorized use of the Sheriff’s Department database for private purposes. See, RivCo Deputy Arrested for Alleged Unauthorized Data, myNewsLA.com.
Mr. Steering has also won jury verdicts against Lake Elsinore deputy sheriffs for beating-up innocents. In David Parnell v. County of Riverside, Mr. Steering recovered $250,000.00 for undercover Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Detective falsely arresting and using excessive upon David Parnell, an innocent man. The deputies did a shoddy investigation and thought that Mr. Parnell was selling a Ditch Witch drilling device that he had purchased from a legitimate construction supply store in San Bernardino County. See, Undercover probe botched, man says, Riverside Press-Enterprise, June 13, 2011.
When Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs do beat-up and falsely arrest innocents, they know that their agency and the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office will not only not prosecute them, but they will gladly prosecute their beating/false arrest victims to protect the deputies and the County from civil liability and obloquy.
If you come into contact with Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs who are acting aggressively or otherwise hostile toward you, the best course of action is to shut your mouth and do what the deputies tell you to do, and you will probably not get beaten or falsely arrested.
IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU ACTUALLY ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS BY WINNING YOUR CASE.
The only thing that matters when enforcing your rights, is whether you win your case. If you don’t win your case, then you have no rights because you have no way to enforce them.
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. You need a unanimous jury of usually 8 jurors to vote in your favor in federal court to win your case. If you mouth-off to the cops or don’t do what the police tell you to do or cuss out the cops, or act like a jerk, one or more of the jurors in your case may not vote for you. That is the reality in which we all live.
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.
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. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”.
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 .
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