BELL GARDENS, CA POLICE MISCONDUCT ATTORNEY Jerry L. Steering, is a Police Misconduct Attorney who has been suing the police since 1984. Mr. Steering has been suing police officers for police brutality / excessive force, false arrests, malicious prosecutions and wrongful deaths caused by police officers in Bell Gardens and throughout California. The Bell Gardens Police Department has a sordid record of police brutality, false arrests and procuring malicious criminal prosecutions. From 2016-2021 0% of police misconduct complaints to the Bell Gardens Police Department were ruled in favor of civilians; that’s 0%. In 2018 a federal jury awarded Gerardo Cazares and Marcelo Moreno each about $2.2 million for physical and emotional injuries from being subjected to excessive force by Bell Gardens police officers. See, Cazares, et al., v. City of Bell Gardens. In addition, because the City of Bell Gardens is saturating with street gangs, Bell Gardens Police Department police officers often treat completely innocent civilians like gangsters. They are more than rude, and tend to search just about everyone who they contact on street encounters or calls for service. THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IN YOUR POLICE MISCONDUCT CIVIL RIGHTS CASE IS WHETHER YOU WIN OR LOSE; THAT’S ALL. Because Police Misconduct Civil Rights cases invariably involve violations of the federal constitutional rights of civilians by police officers, these cases almost always end up being tried in federal court. Even if a Police Misconduct Civil Rights case is filed in a California State Superior Court, the police defendants almost always remove those cases to federal court because they involve violations of the federal civil rights statute 42 U.S.C. § 1983; the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. In federal court, the Judge does all or most of the questioning of prospective jurors. In federal court, federal law requires at least 6 jurors for a civil trial. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 48. However, federal Judges typically seat 8 jurors, in case one or two of the jurors become ill or cannot sit for the entire trial due to other reasons. Moreover, in the real world, any prospective jurors who have had a bad experience with the police or have personally seen police beatings, false arrests or other acts of police misconduct, are either excused for cause by the Judge, or are booted from the jury by the lawyers for the police pursuant to their peremptory jury challenges. Accordingly, by the time that jury selection is over, the people who get to sit on a Police Misconduct Civil Rights Trial in Federal Court are mostly conservative cop-loving jurors. It doesn’t matter what the law says, or what the jury instructions say, or even what the evidence shows, if those 8 cop-loving jurors are just not going to vote for you and condemn the police. If you cannot get a jury to vote for you, you have no constitutional rights in the real world because you have no way to enforce them, and a right without a remedy is no right at all. BECAUSE IT TAKES MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, SKILL AND SAVVY TO WIN YOUR POLICE MISCONDUCT CIVIL RIGHTS TRIAL, YOU NEED JERRY L. STEERING TO WIN YOUR CASE. Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984. He has the experience, the legal knowledge, the skill and the savvy to increase your odds of winning your police misconduct case. As the saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the judge”. If you are the victim of Police Misconduct such as Excessive Force / Police Brutality, False Arrest, Malicious Prosecution or your loved one is the victim of Wrongful Death, call Mr. Steering at (949) 474-1849 or email him 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 FREE CASE EVALUATION
