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 Garden Grove, throughout Orange 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 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. THE GARDEN GROVE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS A BRUTAL AND INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST POLICE AGENCY. All police agencies are institutionally dishonest. They never admit fault and they never apologize for their outrages. If their officers beat, or falsely arrest, or maliciously prosecute or even shoot innocents, they will always find a way to attempt to justify the unjustifiable. The Garden Grove Police Department is no exception to this general rule. Garden Grove Police have a long history of falsely arresting, beating and killing innocents. Because there are a substantial number of street gangsters in Garden Grove, the Garden Grove Police Department Gang Officers have become gangster themselves. Moreover, like other police agencies, Garden Grove Police Department police officers usually don’t just walk up to pedestrians or stopped-motorists and just start beating them. They order innocents to submit to handcuffing, or sit on the curb, or get out of their car, or exit their home. When innocent civilians verbally protest or verbally challenge police orders, usually by asking “Why?” or “What did I do?”, or tell the officer that they cannot do something or that they know their rights, the police consider that person to be in “Contempt of Cop“. When that happens, the Garden Grove Police Officers will pepper-spray or tase, or club or even shoot those who have verbally protested or verbally challenge police orders or actions. Thereafter, Garden Grove Police Department police officers will then falsely arrest and at least attempt to get the Orange County District Attorney’s Office to file bogus criminal charges for some imaginary “resistance offense” such as Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force/violence), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing a peace officer), Cal. Penal Code § 240/241 (assault on peace officer), Cal. Penal Code § 242 / 243(b) & (c) (battery on a peace officer/causing injury) and Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (assault on peace officer with weapon). JERRY L. STEERING HAS HAD GREAT SUCCESS AGAINST THE GARDEN GROVE POLICE DEPARTMENT. Mr. Steering has had great success suing the Garden Grove Police Department. For example, in 2000, an Orange County Superior Court jury awarded Merritt Sharp III $1,010,000.00 for the 45-minute detention of Mr. Sharp and the warrantless search of his Auto Body Shop. Seventeen years later, Mr. Sharp again obtained $250,000.00 following a landmark Opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, when that court held that when law enforcement officers are entering a residence with an arrest warrant for another, or even for a probation or parole search, that peace officers may not detain anyone but the target of the arrest warrant, or the parolee or probationer. Now, because of the Merritt Sharp v. County of Orange case, if one is west of Utah in the United States, the officer may only detain such warrant target, and no one else. In another case against the Garden Grove Police Department, in Santos v. City of Garden Grove, et al.; U.S. District Court (2009) Mr. Steering obtained a $475,000.00 settlement from the City of Garden Grove for the false arrests and use of excessive force on several members of the Frank Santos family. See, Garden Grove Pays Half a Million to Settle Brutality Suit With Santos Family , OC Weekly, September 30, 2009. In another case against the Garden Grove Police Department Mr. Steering obtained $800,000. for a Garden Grove women who was arrested by the Garden Grove Police Department while she was suffering a stroke; not drunk. See, $800,000 paid to Garden Grove stroke victim mistakenly arrested for DUI, Orange County Register October 21, 2021. IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU. 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 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. 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
