Jerry L. Steering is a Police Misconduct Attorney who has been suing the police since 1984 for Violating your Constitutional Rights since 1984 for Excessive Force – Police Brutality, False Arrest, Malicious Prosecutions and Wrongful Deaths. The City of Azusa has its own police department, with its headquarters at 725 N. Alameda Avenue, Azusa, California. The Azusa Police Department is one of those police agencies where the officers are not held accountable for their misconduct, no matter how badly they violate the rights of the public; from rude or rough treatment of civilians, to wrongfully shooting and killing them. In a survey done in 2022, their were 50 serious complaints of police outrages, with none of those complaints resulting in “sustained findings”; findings in which the officer is found to have committed some constitutional violation of other form of misconduct against a civilian. Moreover, even with controversial elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon’s office investigating the Azusa Police Department and other Los Angeles County cities, it is beyond extremely rare that the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office ever finds that police shootings of civilians were wrongful. See, for example the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation of the shooting of Officer Involved Shooting of Adrian Simental by the Azusa Police Department. Accordingly, in Azusa, California, no one is “Watching the Watchman”. If you are the victim of some police outrage by an Azusa Police Officer, don’t bother making an Internal Affairs Complaint, because your complaint is going nowhere other than the trash bin. That is reality. No police officer rat-out their fellow officer, and that motto rules the day at the Azusa Police Department. THE ONLY RIGHTS THAT YOU HAVE AGAINST POLICE MISCONDUCT ARE THOSE RIGHTS THAT YOU CAN ENFORCE, WITH REAL JURIES IN THE REAL WORLD. As Chief Justice John Marshall stated in 1803 in America’s landmark case of Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803): “It is a general and indisputable rule that where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy by suit or action at law whenever that right is invaded.” The converse of that proposition by Chief Justice Marshall is equally true; where there is no real and practical remedy for violation of your constitutional rights, then no such constitutional rights exist in the real world. In the real world, you only have constitutional right to the extent that you can enforce them. In the real world, the only way that you can enforce your constitutional rights, is to have 8 mostly white, mostly conservative, mostly cop-loving jurors unanimously vote for you and condemn the police in your police misconduct civil rights trial in federal court. It doesn’t matter what the law says, or what the judge says, or what the jury instructions say, if for whatever reason, 8 mostly white, mostly conservative, mostly cop-loving jurors will not unanimously vote for you and condemn the police in your civil rights trial against the police. It’s just that simple. “THE YOUNG LAWYER KNOWS THE LAW, BUT THE OLD LAWYER KNOWS THE JUDGE” 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. 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. If you have been the victim of police misconduct, call Jerry L. Steering, Esq. at (949) 474-1849 or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com. FREE CASE EVALUATION
