Escondido Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing state and local police officers since 1984 for Police Brutality / Excessive Force, False Arrests, Illegal Searches and Seizures, Malicious Prosecutions and Wrongful Deaths. Mr. Steering is an Expert and Specialist in suing the police in federal court (United States District Courts); the venue where almost all Police Misconduct Civil Rights cases are tried because most such cases involve the violation of federal constitutional rights of civilians. THE ESCONDIDO POLICE DEPARTMENT IS A BRUTAL AND DISHONEST AGENCY. Escondido, California is a City in North San Diego County. The Escondido Police Department is headquartered at 1163 North Centre City Parkway, Escondido, CA 92026. The City of Escondido has recently been riddled with criminal street gangs over the past couple of decades, and the Escondido Police have a real problem dealing with. See, Escondido police, advocates try to get ahead of rising juvenile gang violence, KPBS, August 16, 2024. However, rather than differentiate between the majority good-citizen types / law abiding citizens and the street gangsters, Escondido police officers have lately been treating nice innocent people like they treat street gangsters. The Escondido Police Department has a well-earned reputation for it’s police department beating-up innocents and at least attempting to frame their victims for some imaginary “resistance offense”, such as violations of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting police with threat or use of force or violence, the resistance offense de jour these days), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (misdemeanor resisting / obstructing / delaying peace officer), Cal. Penal Code § 243(b) & (c), (subsection “(b)” being misdemeanor battery on peace officer and subsection “(c)” being felony battery on peace officer causing injury) and Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (felony assault on peace officer with deadly weapon, or by means likely to result in great bodily injury). ESCONDIDO POLICE OFFICERS ATTEMPT TO FRAME THEIR VICTIMS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM CIVIL LIABILITY AND DISGRACE. Escondido police officers are not legal scholars, but they know this; that a criminal conviction for any of these above-referenced “resistance offenses” will preclude their innocent but nonetheless falsely convicted victims from successfully suing them for false arrest pursuant to Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) , and from liability for excessive force pursuant to the doctrine of collateral estoppel. Moreover, unless you can segregate any supposed resistance of an officer to a subsequent police beating (i.e. resistance of officer committed by running away from officer, and when later caught by officer, then beating up the fleeing suspect), a conviction for such a resistance offense will usually also bar one from successfully suing the police for their beating by the police. See, Smith v. City of Hemet, 394 F.3d 689 (9th Cir. 2005). If you are pulled over by an Escondido Police officers in your car, or stopped on the street by one of them, the best way to avoid a beating and false arrest, and maybe even a malicious criminal prosecution, is to keep your hand in sight, shut your mouth and don’t talk-back to the officer, and do whatever the officer tells you to do. Otherwise, don’t be surprised when you are struck in your head with an Escondido Police baton, or tased, or pepper-sprayed, or falsely arrested for some resistance offense. That is the way to survive in the City of Escondido in the real world. 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
