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 Mentone neighborhood of San Bernardino County, throughout San Bernardino 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 MENTONE ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
The Mentone neighborhood of San Bernardino County has an estimated population of 10,000 residents. The racial makeup of Mentone is approximately 51.5% White, 4.7% African American, 1.3% Native American, 5.4% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Islander, 15.8% from other races, and 20.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 41.7% of the population.
Like other “Inland Empire” cities and neighborhoods, Mentone has its problems with the proliferation of criminal street gangs. See, Safe Streets Task Force Arrests More Than 43 Defendants on Charges Alleging Narcotics Distribution Network Linked to Mexican Mafia Prison Gang, U.S. Department of Justice; Two men charged, one arraigned, in 2005 Mentone double homicide (Mentone gang member charged in 2005 murder) Whittier Daily News, August 29, 2017; 3 Mexican Mafia Members and 28 Associates Charged in Racketeering Indictment that Alleges Murders, Drug Trafficking and Gun Offenses, U.S. Department of Justice, April 27, 2022; Verdicts in for Manzano in Mentone double homicide, San Bernardino Sun, August 28, 2017
The Mentone neighborhood of San Bernadino County is patrolled by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Mentone also has its problems with out-of-control San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs. San Bernardino County is the largest geographical county in the contiguous United States, approximately 20,105 square miles, with an estimated population of 2,300,000 residents. Accordingly, it’s difficult for the command staff at the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to closely supervise and to scrutinize its 2,000 sworn deputies.
Most people don’t like being told that they are wrong or out of line, and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs are no different, if not worse.
California peace officers are only required to graduate from a six-month Police Academy to become certified California peace officers. However, Fourth Amendment search and seizure law is extremely subtle and complicated. Accordingly, most California peace officers (i.e. deputy sheriffs and police officers) have a very basic understanding of Fourth Amendment search and seizure law, but not a learned and sophisticated understanding of that subject.
This author has deposed literally thousands of California peace officers, and with almost no exceptions, none of them has ever actually read a case issued by the United States Supreme Court, or the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, or a California Supreme Court case, or even a California Court of Appeal case. Ergo, none of them really understand the subtleties of Fourth Amendment search and seizure law, and both California peace officers and the California citizenry.
This lack of sophisticated knowledge of Fourth Amendment search and seizure law by the police and the public quite often leads to police officers treating civilians unlawfully, and leads to civilians who wrongfully think that they “know their rights” verbally protesting police orders and actions. When that happens the protesting civilian is now deemed to be in “Contempt of Cop”. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw.com.
When that happens, the protesting civilian often ends up being beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed, or even shot, and thereafter 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 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). This is not lefty propaganda; this is reality.
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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