Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions 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 Malibu, throughout Los Angeles County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal court in Alabama and in the District of Columbia.
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. A right without a real-world remedy (i.e. winning your case) is no right at all; at least for you.
It doesn’t matter what the law states, or what the Judge says, or what the jury instructions say, or even what the evidence shows, if a jury of 8 cop-loving jurors is not going to unanimously vote for you in your federal court Police Misconduct Civil Rights case.
As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. Mr. Steering’s many years of experience in understanding the technical and practical legal landscape of Police Misconduct Civil Rights cases will dramatically increase your chances of winning your case; of actually enforcing your constitutional rights.
Police Misconduct Civil Rights cases are extremely complicated and subtle cases that take many years of experience and insight to navigate your case from inception to across the goal line; actually winning your case; the only things that matters.
THE POLICE IN MALIBU ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
The City of Malibu, California is a beach city in the Santa Monica Mountains region of Los Angeles County, California, that lies approximately about 30 miles west of Los Angeles. It is known for its Mediterranean climate, its strip of beaches stretching along the Pacific coast, and for its status as the home of numerous Hollywood celebrities and executives with a high proportion of its residents in the entertainment industry.
The demographics of the City of Malibu are White alone 81.88%, Black or African American 1.29%, Native American or Alaska Native alone 0.11%, Asian alone 3.18%, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone 0.05%, Other race alone 0.74%, Mixed race or Multiracial 4.93% and Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.82%.
The City of Malibu contracts its police services with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. That agency patrols Malibu out of the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station, located at 27050 Agoura Road, Agoura, California. That agency has a long and well-deserved sordid reputation for corruption, violence and even the murder of civilians to become members of station level deputy gangs; this is no joke.
The station level deputy gang problem at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is so ingrained in the culture of that agency that notwithstanding the California state legislature having passed laws to ban deputy gangs in California police agencies with the enactment of Cal. Pen. Code § 13670, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has done nothing to ban those deputy gangs. See, Deputy gangs a ‘cancer’ within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, scathing report says, KNBC News, March 3, 2023; Deputy gangs in LA Sheriff’s Department have operated secretively “like the Mafia,” watchdog says, CBS LA, September 19, 2024; Skepticism meets LA Sheriff Luna’s deputy gang ban, Los Angeles Public Press, September 23, 2024; Deputy gangs are officially banned by L.A. County sheriff. Will that change anything?, Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2024.
Most of the times that Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs mistreat civilians in Malibu are in “Contempt of Cop” situations; situations involving verbal protest or verbal challenge of police orders or actions. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw.
Verbal protest or verbal challenge of police orders or actions has long been held by the U.S. Supreme Court to be constitutionally protected conduct. As Associate United States Supreme Court Justice William Brennan so eloquently stated in the seminal case of City of 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.”
However, in modern America, verbal protest or verbal challenge of police orders or actions will often result in innocent civilians being beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed, or even shot, and falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for some fabricated “resistance offense” such as 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). This is not lefty propaganda; this is reality; even in Malibu.
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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