Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for excessive force, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions, wrongful deaths and first amendment retaliation cases. Mr. Steering sues the police in Covina, California, throughout the State of California, and sometimes as far away as in the District of Columbia. Mr. Steering is an Expert in Specialist in suing the police in federal court for violation of your federal constitutional rights under the federal statute that was enacted by Congress after the Civil War; 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Section 1983 was, originally known as the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871; the Post-Civil War statute enacted to enforce the Equal Protection of the Laws clause of the 14th Amendment, to then give black persons in the Southern States a remedy against the Klan, the Sheriff and his posse, for violation of their federal constitutional rights. 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is now used by people of all races to sue the police in federal court for violation of federal rights. THE COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT IS A BRUTAL AND DISHONEST AGENCY, THAT ROUTINELY FRAMES ITS VICTIMS FOR BOGUS “RESISTANCE OFFENSES”. Because of the landmark United States Supreme Court case of Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989), since 1989, police agencies, such as the Covina Police Department, have been more brutal with each passing day, because the law allows them to do so. In a very real sense, there is no such thing as the United States Constitution. It has been, is and always will be nothing other than what the U.S. Supreme Court says it is. Ask any Judge or lawyer, and they will agree with that statement. In 1989 in Graham v. Connor the United States Supreme Court took away from federal juries, and delegated to the police, the right to determine what level and type of force is “reasonable”, and, therefore constitutional. In that case, the Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the police to use that level and type of force that the reasonable police officer in the abstract would use under the circumstances. Therefore, whatever the police actually do in various situations, is deemed “reasonable”. These days the police take no chances of any possibility that they might be injured. They commonly use SWAT teams for routine felony arrests. This is no joke. Today’s police officers take no risks at all. That’s why the police stood by while 19 school children in Uvalde, Texas were murdered; because the police did not want to confront the gunman for fear of their personal safety. These days rather than send a police officer into a home or a business to make an arrest of someone for whom they have an arrest warrant and who refuses to exit the building, they use bulldozers or a new device called a “robot” to literally tear down the walls of the home until there is nothing left of the home to hide inside of. Incredibly, in recent years, the California Supreme Court has upheld the destruction of businesses and private homes just because the target of the arrest warrant would not voluntarily exit a private home. See, Customer Co. v. City of Sacramento, 10 Cal. 4th 368 (1995). Moreover, because the police in America are alone left with the right to decide what level and type of force is permitted under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, police agencies have become more and more brutal with each passing day. Moreover, if the police come up with some new device or new way to beat, torture or otherwise use what may be obviously excessive / unreasonable force upon civilians, under the doctrine of Qualified Immunity, until some appellate court in their jurisdiction holds that that particular level of use of force violates the Fourth Amendment, even if the federal judge determines that your constitutional rights were violated, the police still win the lawsuit. See, A Practical Cure for the Curse of Qualified Immunity, by Jerry L. Steering, Esq. The Covina Police Department is no exception. They routinely brutalize the public for any sort of Contempt of Cop; verbal protest or verbal challenge to police orders or actions. They then procure the malicious criminal prosecution of their victims to legally preclude them from suing them for their outrages against those victims, using the doctrine of collateral estoppel and Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) as a legal shield. IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU. 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. FREE CASE EVALUATION 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
