Jerry L. Steering, Esq., is a Civil Rights and Police Misconduct Lawyer, serving the City of Anaheim, the Counties and Cities of Southern California and otherwise throughout California. Mr. Steering has been suing police officers since 1984 and is an expert and specialist in suing the police. Mr. Steering sues the police for civil rights violations such as the use of excessive force, false arrests and malicious criminal prosecutions. He has been involved in these types of cases involving Anaheim Police Department officers since 1986. Free Case Evaluation ANAHEIM CIVIL RIGHTS AND POLICE MISCONDUCT ATTORNEY. 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 others, often for career advancement and sometimes even for pure sadistic pleasure. This is not lefty 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 jurors in federal civil rights trials voting for police defendants, and by voting to convict persons who are truly innocent of any crime, of trumped-up resistance offense based upon straight-up lies in court by police officers in criminal trials. 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 often truly innocent inmates at the OC 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. These monsters were paid $1,500.00 per day for scaring arrestees to confess to “cold crimes” that they were actually innocent of, that the police could not solve. MR. STEERING AND THE ANAHEIM POLICE DEPARTMENT. In Penaloza v. City of Anaheim, Mr. Steering obtained a $2,900,000.00 settlement from the City of Anaheim for the family of a man who was shot and killed by police during a controversial 2018 car chase in which officers fired 76 gunshots in a busy residential neighborhood. One officer was fired following the fatal shooting of Eliuth Nava Penaloza, with investigators with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office referring to police actions that day as “alarming and irresponsible,” and the city’s mayor describing it as disturbing. Video footage from the officers body-worn cameras captured one of them firing dozens of rounds from a 9 mm handgun through the windshield of a patrol car during a brief pursuit that went through alleys and surface streets of a heavily populated Anaheim neighborhood on a Saturday morning. 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 OC 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. 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.) SUING ANAHEIM POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICERS IN FEDERAL COURT FOR VIOLATING YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS; ENFORCING THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. The Third Enforcement Act, also known as The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides: “Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.” Although the original immediate class of persons that the 14th Amendment was ratified to protect were black persons of African descent, those protections of the 14th Amendment apply to all persons. Mr. Steering has been suing police officers and deputy sheriffs under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 since 1984. When the state or local police violate your federal constitutional rights (that, by the way, are shrinking by the day), a Section 1983 action is your federal civil remedy, along with any state law remedies permitted in the state where the police abuse occurred. DEFENDING BOGUS ANAHEIM POLICE DEPARTMENT CRIMINAL RESISTANCE OFFENSE CASES. Mr. Steering is also a Criminal Defense Lawyer; specializing in defending innocents in “resistance offenses”, such as resisting / obstructing / delaying a peace officer (words that mean everything and mean nothing; Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1)), Cal. Penal Code § 69 (the “turbo version” of Section 148(a)(1); interfering with duties of public officer via violence or threat thereof a felony), assault and battery on a peace officer (Cal. Penal Code §§ 240/241(c) & 242/243(b)), and even assault on a peace officer with a gun (Cal. Penal Code §§ 245(c) & 245(d).) Almost every good old fashioned police beating is accompanied by some sort of bogus arrest; routinely for some variety of “Contempt of Cop” or “resistance offense.” The Anaheim Police Department is one of the worst police departments in OC, California, where police misconduct is rampant and accepted by the public. Anaheim Police Department police officers are often successful in their attempt to shift the blame for their use of unreasonable force upon or their false arrest of innocents, by procuring the bogus criminal prosecution of their innocent victims, for a “resistance offense.” It’s important for the government that the police convict you for a “resistance offense”, because under the doctrine of issue preclusion (“collateral estoppel“) or “claim preclusion” (“res judicata“), if an issue of fact or law has been determined against you in a prior judicial proceeding, you can’t re-litigate that fact or law determination in a subsequent judicial proceeding. FURTHER DETAILS ON WHAT TO DO. If you are the victim of a good old fashion police beating, false arrest or malicious criminal prosecution by Anaheim Police Department Officers, we can help. Click on “Home”, above, or the other pages shown, for the information or assistance that we can provide for you. If you need to speak with a lawyer about your particular legal situation, please call the Law Offices of Jerry L. Steering for a free telephone consultation. Also, if you have been the victim of a False Arrest or Excessive Force by a police officer, check our Section, above, entitled: “What To Do If You Have Been Beaten-Up Or False Arrested By The Police“. Thank you, and best of luck, whatever your needs. Law Offices of Jerry L. Steering Call For a Free Consultation Call Anytime If you have been arrested or abused by the police it is important to talk to a lawyer immediately to protect your freedom and your civil rights. Report Police Misconduct Report your false arrest or abuse by the police and we will contact you for a free initial consultation.
