ARTESIA POLICE MISCONDUCT ATTORNEY JERRY L. STEERING Artesia Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality / excessive force, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions and for police caused wrongful deaths (shootings and smotherings). The City of Artesia contracts its Police Services with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department out of the Lakewood Station, at 5130 N. Clark Avenue, Lakewood, CA 90712. DEPUTY GANGS STILL HAUNT THE LAKEWOOD STATION THAT PATROLS THE CITY OF ARTESIA Over recent times, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been shown to be basically a criminal enterprise that is run at the station level by various Deputy Gangs. This is no joke. See, Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Wikipedia. The Deputy Gang at the Lakewood Station has its member sport a tattoo with a Spade with a number 13. See, Cursory deputy gang probes at Lakewood, Industry stations criticized in watchdog report, Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2024. The California Legislature recent enacted criminal statutes prohibiting Deputy Gangs or other “gangs” of officers within a department, embodied in Cal. Penal Code Section 13670 that provides: (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., nothing has been done to enforce that law. (b) Each law enforcement agency shall maintain a policy that prohibits participation in a law enforcement gang and that makes violation of that policy grounds for termination. A law enforcement agency shall cooperate in any investigation into these gangs by an inspector general, the Attorney General, or any other authorized agency. Notwithstanding any other law, local agencies may impose greater restrictions on membership and participation in law enforcement gangs, including for discipline and termination purposes. Notwithstanding the enactment of Cal. Penal Code Section 13670, nothing has been done to abolish Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, or in any other California police agency; nothing. See, Sheriff Alex Villanueva is Obstructing Attempts to Eradicate Deputy Gangs from the LASD, Loyola Law School, April 21, 2022. The current Sheriff of Los Angeles County, Robert Luna, has also done nothing to eradicate these Deputy Gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. See, LASD is openly violating state law on deputy gangs, according to leaked documents, Los Angeles Public Press, May 8, 2024. POLICE MISCONDUCT IS RIFE IN ARTESIA DUE IN PART TO THESE DEPUTY GANGS THAT STILL HAUNT THE LAKEWOOD STATION In the real world, there are good cops, and bad cops, and everything in between. Unfortunately, any “good cop” that “rats out” a “bad cop” is going to find himself/herself unemployed. This is not lefty propaganda. It’s just the reality of our time. Nowhere is this more true that at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department; a department with 50 years of Deputy Gangs, and a department where a recent Sheriff, Lee Baca, and his Undersheriff, Paul Tanaka, both went to federal prison for sending Deputy Sheriffs to the homes of FBI agents and threatened them with arrest if they continued investigating LASD personnel torturing and beating inmates at the Los Angeles County Central Men’s Jail. LASD deputy sheriffs don’t usually just walk up to civilians and, without any verbal exchange, start beating them. It does happen, but it’s rare. Usually LASD beatings and false arrests are the product of what the police call “contempt of cop”; verbal challenge or verbal protest of police orders or actions. You may think that you have a right to verbally protest or verbally challenge LASD actions, but when you do, do be surprised of you are pepper-sprayed, tased, hit with police batons and taken to jail, and thereafter charged with some bogus resistance offense. That is the real world in Artesia. If you are the victim of police misconduct, call Jerry L. Steering at (949) 474-1849 or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com. He is an expert and specialist in suing the police, since 1984. As the old saying goes: “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. 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 FREE CASE EVALUATION
