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 Coachella, 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 COACHELLA ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
Coachella is a city in Riverside County, California with an estimated population of 45,500 residents. Is next to Indio, California; the home of the annual Coachella Music Festival; an annual rock festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California; a Coachella Valley city directly adjacent to Coachella.
Coachella contracts its police services with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department that deploys to patrol the streets of Coachella out its Therman Station located at 86625 Airport Blvd., Thermal, California.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is often a brutal and, frankly, cruel agency. Their deputies routinely beat, tase, pepper-spray and even shooting persons for verbal protest or verbal challenge to their orders of actions.
Even worse, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office “CAPO” Unit (Crimes Against Peace Officers Unit) acts to falsely and maliciously convict the victims of the use of excessive force of fabricated “resistance offenses”, to preclude those excessive force and false arrest victims from being able to successfully sue the violating deputies for the violations of their federal and state rights. Almost all of the criminal prosecutions in Riverside County Superior Court against the victims of excessive force by Riverside County peace officers; both the various Riverside County police agencies and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office “CAPO” Unit should really be called “CBPO Unit”; Crimes By Peace Officers, for in the overwhelming majority of the cases that the “CAPO” Units deal with are cases in which the involved peace officers (deputy sheriffs and police officers) using excessive force on a civilian.
The involved police agency fabricates stories; stories that claim that the excessive force victims are the ones who assaulted the police, to shift the blame for the officer having to use the force upon the civilian from the peace officer to the civilian. The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office “CAPO” Unit then goes to work to beat-down and convict these excessive force victims, to falsely and maliciously convict them of some “resistance offense” such as violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing 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 weapon).
To add insult to injury, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department violates state and federal constitutional law in these cases by withholding documents that are often exculpatory in “resistance offense” cases from the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. For example, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has their Patrol Sergeants create a “Supervisor’s Use of Force Memorandum” that contain the Patrol Sergeant’s Summary of his interview of the deputy sheriffs who used the force upon the civilian.
Notwithstanding the requirements of Cal. Penal Code § 1054.1 that requires that the District Attorney’s Office provides to a criminal defendant “(e) Any exculpatory evidence” and “(f) Relevant written or recorded statements of witnesses or reports of the statements of witnesses whom the prosecutor intends to call at the trial”, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department takes the position that these “Supervisor’s Use of Force Memorandum” and Deputy Use of Force Report are “internal documents” that are not to be provided to either the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office or to the criminal defendant or his lawyer.
Moreover, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution also requires that even in the absence of a request to the prosecution by a criminal defendant or his lawyer, that any exculpatory evidence be provided to the defense. See, Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963).
Accordingly, in an effort to literally frame/falsely convict an Excessive Force victim for some fabricated “resistance offense” the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deliberately refuses and will not provide often exculpatory evidence such as these “Supervisor’s Use of Force Memorandum” and the “Use of Force Report” of the deputy sheriff who used the force upon the civilian/criminal defendant
This is not fiction; this is the sorry state of the real world in Riverside County, and in Indio, California.
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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