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 Blossum Valley neighborhood, throughout San Diego 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 BLOSSOM VALLEY ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
The San Diego County neighborhood of Blossum Valley is patrolled by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, deploying out of the Alpine Station at 2751 Alpine Boulevard, Alpine, CA 91901.
The Logan Heights Gang was established in Southeast San Diego, when several individual Mexican-American street gangs from the neighborhoods of Barrio Logan, Logan Heights, and Memorial unified. The Logan Heights Gang has been an ally to the Tijuana Cartel (also known as the Arellano-Félix Organization) over the Tijuana smuggling route to the border city of San Diego, California.
Another “street gang” is the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office. The deputies with that agency are, for lack of a better term, “trigger happy“. See, Ex-SDSO dep. denied trial delay based on concerns amid recent ICE shootings, KPBS, February 5, 2026 (former San Diego County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a fleeing, unarmed man outside the San Diego Central Jail); San Diego considers $30 million settlement in police-involved shooting death of Black teen, KSAT.com; Former San Diego Sheriff’s Deputy Charged with Civil Rights Violation for Fatally Shooting Unarmed Man, U.S. Department of Justice, May 17, 2024. See also, Officer Involved Shootings; San Diego County District Attorney’s Office; K.J.P. et al v. County of San Diego, Hayes v. County of San Diego, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed the father during a response to a domestic disturbance call)
Besides wrongful shootings of civilians by San Diego County Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriffs, that agency has a well-earned reputation for the use of excessive force and false arrests of innocents. Most of those abuse of innocent law-abiding civilians incident almost always arise in the context of “Contempt of Cop” situations. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw.com.
Civilians have a long established federal constitutional right to verbally protest of verbally challenge police orders or action. See Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan so eloquently stated in 1987 in striking down a Houston, Texas Municipal Ordinance that criminalized interfering with a police officer in the performance of their duty:
“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.” Brennan, J., City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987).
Notwithstanding that right to verbally protest or verbally challenge police actions or orders, in Blossum Valley and otherwise throughout San Diego County, do so will often result in San Diego County Sheriff’s Office deputies beating or tasing or pepper-spraying, or worse, and falsely arresting and maliciously prosecuting innocent civilians for fabricated “resistance offenses” 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.
To make things worse, juries in San Diego County are notoriously pro-cop, and love to vote in favor of the police in police misconduct civil rights cases. That doesn’t mean that if you are the victim of police misconduct that you have no real-world viable remedy. It just means that you need an experienced police misconduct attorney to actually get a civil rights federal jury to unanimously vote for you in your federal civil rights trial.
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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