Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions, wrongful deaths and First Amendment retaliation cases. Mr. Steering in an Expert and Specialist in suing the police in federal court for constitutional violations in the City of Buellton, throughout Santa Barbara County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal courts in Alabama and in the District of Columbia.
“THE YOUNG LAWYER KNOWS THE LAW, BUT THE OLD LAWYER KNOWS THE JUDGE”.
Mr. Steering’s many years of experience and acquired knowledge can help you maximize your chances of actually winning your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters. If you cannot win your Civil Rights Police Misconduct Lawsuit then you have no rights, because you have no way to enforce them, and a right without a remedy in the real world does not exist.
THE POLICE IN BUELLTON ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
Buellton is a small city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It is located in the Santa Ynez Valley. The population of Buellton was 5,161 at the 2020 census, up from 4,828 at the 2010 census. The demographics of Buellton are White (Non-Hispanic) (72.2%), White (Hispanic) (10.6%), Other (Hispanic) (7.49%), Two Races Including Other (Hispanic) (5.23%), and Two Races Including Other (Non-Hispanic) (1.34%).
Notwithstanding Buellton’s large White population, Buellton still has problems with criminal street gangs wreaking havoc in the streets of that city. See, Suspects Arrested for Shooting Outside Buellton, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, September 23, 2024; Members of Central Coast Street Gangs Named in Federal Drug Trafficking Indictments Arrested by Authorities, United States Department of Justice; Former gang members sentenced in kidnap, torture of a Lompoc man, Santa Maria Times, November 12, 2014; The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Buellton, CA: Crime Maps and Statistics, CrimeGrade.org; Buellton Crime Data – 2024, April 15, 2025; Crime rate in Buellton, California (CA): murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, auto thefts, arson, law enforcement employees, police officers, crime map; City-Data.com; Sheriff’s Deputies Investigate Drive-By Shooting in Buellton, edhat santa barbara, February 1, 2018.
The City of Buellton is patrolled by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, located at the City of Buellton Sheriff Station, 140 W. Highway 246, Buellton, California. That agency has had plenty of problems with very questionable Officer Involved Shootings and uses of force upon civilians. See, Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting on Highway 101 in Buellton Ruled Justified, Noozhawk; Deputy on leave after fatal shooting, lompocrecord.com, July 6, 2012; Investigation of officer-involved shooting of Fernando Castro finds deputies acted reasonably, Santa Maria Sun, September 19, 2017; Suspect in fatal officer involved shooting on Highway 101 ID’d as SM man, January 15, 2021; Officer-involved shooting of former Sheriff’s custody deputy ruled justified, Lompoc Record, October 16, 2020; Sheriff’s Deputies Fatally Shoot Man in Altercation at Magnolia Shopping Center in Goleta, Santa Barbara Independent, Oct 20, 2025; Officer Involved Shooting Update – USPDhub; Lompoc Police Department, April 20, 2021.
Most of the problems with those Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Sheriffs who abuse basically law-abiding citizens in Buellton arise in the context of Contempt of Cop situations. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw.com.
Many of those Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Sheriffs who become jaded to the point of mistreating basically law-abiding citizens in Buellton, very often in the context of minor traffic stops for de minimis traffic violations. When that happens, those basically law-abiding citizens are deemed in “Contempt of Cop”. When that happens, those basically law-abiding citizens are then often beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed, and falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for some fabricated resistance offense such as violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing officer), Cal. Penal Code § 240/241 (assault on officer), Cal. Penal Code § 242 / 243(b) & (c) (battery on officer causing injury) and Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (assault on officer with weapon).
IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU ACTUALLY ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS BY WINNING YOUR CASE.
The only thing that matters when enforcing your rights, is whether you win your case. If you don’t win your case, then you have no rights because you have no way to enforce them.
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. You need a unanimous jury of usually 8 jurors to vote in your favor in federal court to win your case. If you mouth-off to the cops or don’t do what the police tell you to do or cuss out the cops, or act like a jerk, one or more of the jurors in your case may not vote for you. That is the reality in which we all live.
Mr. Steering’s many years of experience and knowledge in suing the police can help you maximize your chances of winning your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters.
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. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”.
If you are the victim of police misconduct, Jerry L. Steering can help you. Call Jerry L. Steering, Esq. at (949) 474-1849, or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com .
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