Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious prosecutions, wrongful deaths and First Amendment retaliation cases. Mr. Steering sues the police in Downey, California, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal court in Alabama and the District of Columbia. Mr. Steering’s many years of experience and knowledge obtained by suing state and local police officers for constitutional violations can help you maximize your chances of actually winning your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters. DOWNEY POLICE ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND, AND THEY ARE NOT THERE TO HELP YOU; ONLY THEM. The Downey Police Department 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. The Downey Police Department has also fought efforts to skirt California law that required them to reveal internal records of the misconduct of Downey Police Officers. See, Downey police union loses lawsuit to block release of police discipline records, Long Beach Post, May 29, 2019. Because Downey 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. In recent times, what used to be called the “Good Faith Defense” to constitutional violations by police officers, has now morphed into the modern “Doctrine of Qualified Immunity”. Under the “Doctrine of Qualified Immunity” even if the Judge in your Police Misconduct Civil Rights cases finds that the defendant police officers violated your federal constitutional rights, if there is not a previous Published Opinion by a Court having binding jurisdiction over the police in that geographical area that would clearly show any reasonably well-trained police officer that the very actions complained of constituted a federal constitutional violation, the police win and you lose. See, A Practical Cure for the Curse of Qualified Immunity, by Jerry L. Steering. THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IN YOUR POLICE MISCONDUCT CIVIL RIGHTS CASE IS WINNING. As Chief Justice John Marshall stated in Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803): “It is a general and indisputable rule that where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy by suit or action at law whenever that right is invaded.” The converse of that statement is equally true. That is, if there is no realistic and practically attainable remedy to enforce a constitutional right, then there is no right at all. Constitutional rights only exist to the extent that they can be enforced, so if for whatever reason you cannot enforce them, they do not exist for you. Moreover, under the 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution, both sides to a civil case in federal court have a right to a trial by jury, and there has to be a unanimous verdict. Fed. Rules Civil Proc. 48. Therefore, in order to actually enforce your federal constitutional rights you need to be able to persuade a unanimous jury to vote for you, and to condemn the police. If you cannot achieve that then you have no federal constitutional rights, because in the real world of cop-loving jurors, you cannot win your case, and again, a right without a real-world remedy is no right at all. JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU ACTUALLY WIN YOUR POLICE MISCONDUCT CIVIL RIGHTS CASE. Jerry L. Steering has a long track record of successfully suing the police and the Sheriff’s Department in Los Angeles County. See Mr. Steering’s Los Angeles County Police Misconduct Attorney Homepage for sample of various successful Police Misconduct Civil Rights lawsuits against in Los Angeles County. Because Mr. Steering has been suing the police since 1984, he had the experience, the knowledge and the savvy to maximize your chances of actually wining your Police Misconduct Civil Rights lawsuit. As the old saying goes: “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. If you have been the victim of Police Misconduct, we can help you. Call (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
