BAKERSFIELD POLICE MISCONDUCT  ATTORNEY JERRY L. STEERING

Bakersfield Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for false arrests, police brutality * excessive force, malicious prosecutions and wrongful deaths. He is a Specialist and Expert in suing the police in federal court for violation of your federal constitutional rights, and your rights under California state law. Mr. Steering represents the victims of police misconduct in Bakersfield, California, and throughout Kern County.

POLICE MISCONDUCT CASES IN KERN COUNTY ARE ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT TO WIN

In Kern County, the Courts are as corrupt at the police. Over eight years, more than 50,000 Kern County Superior Court defendants were coerced by Kern County Superior Court Judges to pled guilty without lawyers at their first court appearance; something beyond outrageous. Many of them were innocent, but without a lawyer, what could they do. See, “ACLU Sues Kern County for Operating Plea Mill“, ACLU of Southern California, May 8, 2023.

This is extremely problematic in police misconduct cases, where police officers who use excessive force upon civilians typically and routinely procure the false and malicious criminal prosecutions of the victims of their police brutality. When the police use excessive force upon civilians, they only time that they don’t take them directly to jail on trumped-up charges of resisting arrest or battery on a police officer, is when they taken them to the hospital to attend to the broken bones and other injuries suffered by the civilian.

Moreover, because the Bakersfield Police Department often deal with local gangsters, the tend to view everyone who they encounter on the street or on their calls for service, as low-life criminals, who deserve a good old-fashioned beating.

is a very cruel and brutal entity. There is almost no limit what they will do to protect themselves from the victims of their outrages. They beat, falsely arrest and procure the malicious criminal prosecutions of their victims.

BAKERSFIELD POLICE ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND, AND THEY ARE NOT THERE TO HELP YOU; ONLY THEM.

LAPD Batting Practice in the ParkBecause Bakersfield Police Department officers often deal with local gangsters, and due to a recent series of United States Supreme Court cases, the police can falsely arrest, beat, shoot and even kill anyone they care to. This is no joke, this is reality.

Bakersfield Police have a long history of falsely arresting, beating and killing innocents. These days, all police agencies in California shoot persons unjustifiably, and beat and false arrest innocents for “contempt of cop” violations (i.e. verbally protesting or verbally challenging police orders or actions).

If you are being criminally prosecuted for a “resistance offense” (i.e. resisting arrest, felony resisting officer with force and violence, and assault on peace officer & battery on a peace officer), chances are that you are being framed for actions / omissions by you that are no crime at all. See, Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987) (“The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state“).

Nonetheless, the Kern County District Attorney’s Office prosecutes innocents who did nothing more than verbally challenge police officers or actions; contempt of cop. The Kern County District Attorney’s Office feels that they must protect the police from your lawsuit against the police who beat you and falsely arrested you, by prevented you from suing the police by securing your conviction for some sort of resistance offense. After all, no one ever got elected District Attorney by promising to protect the public from the police. It’s just that simple.

Mr. Steering has had success in Kern County police misconduct cases, having obtained a $250,000.00 settlement against a Kern County Deputy Sheriff for excessive force responding to a domestic violence call for service in Michael Jackson v. County of Kern, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California.

We can help you win your bogus criminal case in a manner most likely to result in you subsequently your civil case against the police; something that we are experts on.

IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU SUE THE POLICE TO VINDICATE YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

Jerry L. Steering arguing Zion v. County of OrangeThe only rights that you have in this world, are those rights that you can enforce, as a practical matter in the real world. A right without a real-world practical remedy is no right at all.

It doesn’t matter what the law says, or what the jury instructions say, or even what the evidence shows, if 8 mostly conservative, mostly cop-loving jurors, are not going to unanimously vote for you in federal court in your federal civil rights case. In the end, all that does matter is whether those jurors vote for you and condemn the actions that the police took against you. That’s all.

Because police misconduct cases are legally very complicated and subtle, it take many years of experience and legal expertise in even getting past the defense of qualified immunity, so you can have a jury decided your case.

Thereafter, even if you do get to a jury in your federal civil rights case, it takes many years of experience to convince a federal jury to unanimously vote for you and condemn the actions that the police took against you.

Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984, and can help you get by qualified immunity and convince a federal jury to vote for you in your civil right case. As the saying goes: “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. Mr. Steering expertise and many years of experience can help you win your case.

If you are the victim of Police Misconduct, call Jerry L. Steering at (949) 474-1849, or email him on the FREE CASE EVALUATION button or at jerry@steeringlaw.com.

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