Police Misconduct Attorney Anaheim, CA

Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing police officers since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious prosecutions, wrongful deaths and First Amendment retaliation cases. Mr. Steering sues the police in Anaheim, throughout Orange County and otherwise 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.

ANAHEIM IS RIFE WITH POLICE MISCONDUCT.

Anaheim, California is rife with daily police outrages. As most police agencies do, if you give them an inch they will take a mile. Unfortunately, Anaheim Police Department officers often beat, shoot, tase, torture many innocents and other, often for career advancement and pure sadistic pleasure. This is not left propaganda. This is the sad reality of our times. After all, the police state isn’t the police; it’s the public. It’s the public approval of police outrages by voting for police defendants in civil rights case, and by voting to convict true innocents based upon straight-up lies in court by police officers.

MR. STEERING AND THE ANAHEIM POLICE DEPARTMENT.

He has been involved in these types of cases involving Anaheim Police Department officers since 1986. Anaheim Police Department officers are quite adept in planting evidence to frame innocents, falsely arresting innocents and even killing innocents for many years now; all with impunity.

Anaheim is rather unbiased in their treatment of civilians. No matter your race, color or creed, all are treated equally poorly and oppressively. Anaheim police officers learn early on that they literally can beat, falsely arrest and procure the filing of a bogus criminal action against those whom they abuse. This not some lefty propaganda or overstatement of the state of our country. It is reality.

Anaheim PD was the leading agency that literally created the OC Snitch Scandal; a massive scandal involving Anaheim PD and using illegal jailhouse informants to obtained confessions from inmates at the Orange County Jails. They used real life former Mexican Mafia gang members, who were inmates in the jail and on the City payroll, to literally coerce and scare inmates into making incriminating statements; confessions that were often false, made simply to avoid violence by the Mexican Mafia. See, Justice Department Finds Civil Rights Violations by Orange County, California, District Attorney’s Office and Sheriff’s Department in Use of Jailhouse Informants, U.S. Department of Justice, October 13, 2022.

Some police officers can handle the awesome power over civilians, and some cannot. The Anaheim Police Department has its share of those who cannot.

In Penaloza v. City of Anaheim, Mr. Steering obtained $2,900,000.00 for the family of Eliuth Penaloza, for Anaheim police officers shooting him through their own windshield, while he fled in his truck after pointing his pellet gun (that looked real) at them in an auto pursuit. See, Anaheim to pay $2.9 million for police shooting that killed fleeing driver, Anaheim to pay $2.9 million for police shooting that killed fleeing driver, Orange County Register, April 16, 2020.

In Pelayo v. City of Anaheim, Mr. Steering obtained a $950,000.00 award for the shooting of a Petrica Munteen, a mentally ill man who also fled Anaheim police officers after causing a disturbance and displaying a pellet gun (that also looked).

In Oliver v. City of Anaheim, U.S. District Court, Santa Ana; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2012; (plaintiff won case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on their unlawful arrest claim; false arrest as matter of law.) Plaintiffs obtained $400,000.00 for four hour false arrest of father (and son), for father telling police that he didn’t know of his son hit a opossum with a shovel (which isn’t a crime anyway),so busted the father for violation of Cal. Penal Code 32 (i.e. “accessory to crime”, for not incriminating his son, for something that isn’t a crime. See, Oliver v. City of Anaheim; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Steering has also had many acquittals in Orange County Superior Court; especially in cases involving false arrests.

Norma Cortez v. City of Anaheim; Mr. Steering also obtained $300,000.00 from the City of Anaheim, for the use of police tactics that placed the plaintiff in a position of danger; a danger that did happen (i.e. non-lethal bystander gunshot wound); Norma Cortez et al. v. City of Anaheim, et al.; United States District Court for the Central District of California. Earlier that day of the shooting, and Anaheim police officer was shot in the leg at a Disneyland area hotel. As you can imagine, the Anaheim Police Department were out to get the shooter. At around midnight that same day, the suspect was spotted driving on the 91 freeway. Anaheim police officers did sinisoid traffic manuevers to stop traffic, and used the stopped motorists on the freeway as human containers, to box the man in. When he alighted from his car, the police riddled him with bullets, all within the stopped cars on the freeway, resulting in Norma Cortez suffering a flesh wound.

In Riggs v. City of Anaheim, Mr. Steering obtained a $250,000.00 award for a woman who was grabbed from behind and propelled down onto the sidewalk by an Anaheim police officer responding to a domestic violence call for service.

Mr. Steering also obtained $95,000.00 settlement for the seven minute long false arrest of an El Segundo Police Officer (Gregory Howden v. City of Anaheim.)