Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions 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 Hawaiian Gardens, throughout Los Angeles County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal court in Alabama and in the District of Columbia. Mr. Steering 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. HAWAIIAN GARDENS POLICE ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND, AND THEY ARE NOT THERE TO HELP YOU; ONLY THEM. Hawaiian Gardens may be the smallest city in Los Angeles County, but that city has been the epicenter of incredibly large gang activity; both criminal street gangs and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy gangs. In 1997 Hawaiian Gardens suffered a financial crisis and had to disband its police department. See, Financial Crisis Forces City to Close Police Department, Los Angeles Times, November 4, 1997. Thereafter, the City of Hawaiian Gardens contracted with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for its police services. On June 24, 2005 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sheriff Jerry Ortiz was shot and killed by members of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang. While the gang member, Jose Orozco, was quickly apprehended and currently sits on death row, the shooting of Deputy Ortiz sparked an investigation that culminated in the largest gang “sweep” in U.S. history. In response to Deputy Ortiz’ murder, pursuant to “Operation Knock Out”, on May 21, 2009 approximately 1,400 law enforcement officers swept across the City of Hawaiian Gardens to arrest dozens of people named in a federal RICO indictment that described a war against the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, as well as systematic efforts to rid the community of African-Americans with a campaign of shootings and other attacks. See, Massive Racketeering Case Targets Hawaiian Gardens Gang Involved In Murder of Sheriff’s Deputy, Attacks on African-Americans and Widespread Drug Trafficking, U.S. Department of Justice, May 21, 2009. “OPERATION KNOCK OUT” BEGAN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT’S WAR ON THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN HAWAIIAN GARDENS. Since “Operation Knock Out” on May 21, 2009, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department began its reign of terror on innocent civilians as well as the criminal street gangs of Hawaiian Gardens. The Sheriff’s Department in Hawaiian Gardens has a long history of falsely arresting, beating and killing innocents. They are a criminal street gang and have been for quite some time; over 50 years. That agency has various “gangs of officers”, who routinely beat, torture, maim and kill members of the jails, and of the community, for fun; for the honor of the gang. Everybody is a scumbag and have no rights. Some of these Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy gangs require that a deputy murder someone while on-duty to be admitted to the gang, like the Compton Station’s “Executioners”. See, “Executioner’ gang dominates Compton sheriff station“, Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2020. The gang culture at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has gotten so bad, the last few sheriffs have been powerless to do anything about that agency’s gang problem. Although Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna announced a ban on those deputy gangs, nothing has been done to do so. See, Sheriff’s Department announces long-awaited policy banning deputy gangs, Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2024. In 2021 the California legislature banned police gangs at police agencies in California with the enactment of Cal. Pen. Code § 13670, that provided that all California police agencies ban officer gangs within their department, and defined police gangs as: (2) “Law enforcement gang” means a group of peace officers within a law enforcement agency who may identify themselves by a name and may be associated with an identifying symbol, including, but not limited to, matching tattoos, and who engage in a pattern of on-duty behavior that intentionally violates the law or fundamental principles of professional policing, including, but not limited to, excluding, harassing, or discriminating against any individual based on a protected category under federal or state antidiscrimination laws, engaging in or promoting conduct that violates the rights of other employees or members of the public, violating agency policy, the persistent practice of unlawful detention or use of excessive force in circumstances where it is known to be unjustified, falsifying police reports, fabricating or destroying evidence, targeting persons for enforcement based solely on protected characteristics of those persons, theft, unauthorized use of alcohol or drugs on duty, unlawful or unauthorized protection of other members from disciplinary actions, and retaliation against other officers who threaten or interfere with the activities of the group. However, as most of the deputy gangs at the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department run various Sheriff’s Department stations, in the real world the Sheriff’s Department would have to fire about one-third of its deputies to rid itself of those gangs. Nonetheless, the public tolerates the existence, and the perpetuation of an ongoing unwritten agreement among and between peace officers, to falsely report, and, if necessary, to thereafter conspire with officers who they may not yet even know, to falsely testify, about event(s), if the potential or apparent criminal, administrative and civil liability of a fellow officer is at stake. After all, in the primary category of cases that truly are “false arrests” in the most malevolent sense of the word, “Contempt of Cop cases”, the only reason that there’s an arrest of a civilian at all, is because the Constable has violated another (i.e. beaten-up / torture); usually to self-medicate rather frail and easily bruise-able egos. IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. 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. 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 . FREE CASE EVALUATION Police Misconduct Specialties: Excessive Force Concealing Evidence Destroying Evidence False Arrest K-9 Maulings Malicious Prosecution Police Beatings Police Brutality Police Shootings Whistle Blower Retaliation Wrongful Death
