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 San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, 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.
SAN YSIDRO IS PATROLLED BY THE SAN DIEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT; AN INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST AGENCY.
San Ysidro (Californio Spanish for “St. Isidore“) is a district of San Diego, California, immediately north of the Mexico–United States border. It neighbors Otay Mesa West to the north, Otay Mesa to the east, and Nestor and the Tijuana River Valley to the west; together these communities form South San Diego, a practical exclave of the City of San Diego. Major thoroughfares include Beyer Boulevard and San Ysidro Boulevard.
The population of San Ysidro is approximately 28,000 residents. The demographics of San Ysidro are Hispanic 93%, White 3%, Asian 2%, African American 2%, Two or more races, 1% Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0%.
That police agency has a long history of using excessive force upon those members of society who are least able to protect themselves; the poor, the homeless and the mentally ill.
The homeless are often in contact with the San Diego Police Department because unlike those members of society who have an actual residence, the homeless members of society are either sleeping in small tents or makeshift shelters, or, sleeping in their cars or motorhomes, or on a park bench.
The San Diego Police Officers who drive around San Diego and patrol the streets of San Ysidro come into contact with the homeless every day and night. Most San Diego Police Department police officers are decent men and women, trying to do a difficult job. However, not every San Diego Police Department police officers can handle that great amount of power over civilians that our laws have evolved to permit them to have.
The economic demographics of San Ysidro are a median household income of $69,792 and an overall poverty rate of 13.5%. That’s not abject poverty, but it is the lower end of the economic spectrum in the San Diego Metropolitan Area.
You don’t go from a free society to a police state overnight. Each United States Supreme Court case, and case from the various United States Circuit Courts of Appeals cases, and state Appellate cases that gives the police more and more power over civilians chips-away at the alter of freedom. The happen small step by small step. However, eventually, those small steps add up, and after a generation or two, one looks back and sees that we have fallen quite a long way into a police state.
In neighborhoods such as San Ysidro with a 93% Hispanic population, the police often abuse the locals. With many of our constitutional rights now gone, and with United States Supreme Court cases such as Kristi Noem v. Pedro Vasquez Perdomo, 606 U. S. __ (2025), the San Diego Police Department is now free to detain at gunpoint and interrogate anyone who speaks Spanish and appears to be engaged in day labor, or working at a carwash or in engaged in agriculture.
Moreover, that United States Supreme Court case has now basically turned ICE (U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement) loose on a majority of the population of San Ysidro, and they use and abuse their power on the locals in San Ysidro every day.
In addition to ICE agents literally terrorizing Hispanic people in Southern California, the police patrolling San Ysidro neighborhood often join in arresting innocents for fabricated resistance offenses, usually contempt of cop cases; cases in which civilians verbally protest or verbally challenge police orders and actions. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?”
Verbal protest and verbal challenge of police officers and actions has long been held to be constitutionally protected conduct. As Associate United States Supreme Court Justice William Brennan held in a landmark Supreme Court Opinion in striking down a City of Houston, Texas Municipal Ordinance that criminalized interrupting or obstructing a police officer:
“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.” Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987).
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 West Hollywood, throughout Los Angeles 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.
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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