LOS ANGELES, CA POLICE MISCONDUCT ATTORNEY

Jerry L. Steering is a Los Angeles Police Misconduct Attorney in California. Mr. Steering has been suing police officers and defending bogus criminal cases (mostly bogus crimes against police officers) since 1984.

City of Los Angeles
City of Los Angeles

The majority of our firm’s law practice, is suing police officers and other government officials, for claims such as false arrest, police brutality /excessive force, malicious prosecutionfabrication of evidence and other “Constitutional Torts”, including police whistleblowing cases (Cal. Labor Code Section 1102.5.) and defending bogus criminal cases against the victims of such abuse by the police; almost always for the same incident that the civilian – victim sues for.

Mr. Steering has been suing police officers and defending bogus criminal cases of crimes against police officers, since 1984. 

THE POLICE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE BRUTAL AND CORRUPT.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is the largest Sheriff’s Department in the United States. Yet, they did not audio record their contact with the public, including when they detained, arrested and used force upon civilians, until early 2022. It’s real simple. They only want one side of the story; their side.

They know that the public is still in Fantasy Land about the police, and they know they are professional liars / perjurers, who the public almost always believes in a swearing contest with a civilian.

The LAPD may consider themselves the “Badest Gang in Town”, but the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department almost makes the LAPD look civilized.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Executioners-Tattoo.webpThese days, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has come under political fire for fostering an ongoing culture of “Deputy Gangs” at the various Sheriff’s Department stations. Some of these deputy gangs require that a deputy literally murder someone while on-duty to be admitted to the gang, like the Compton Station’s “Executioners”. See, L.A. County deputy alleges “Executioner’ gang dominates Compton sheriff station, Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2020. See also, the Database of Los Angeles Sheriffs’ Department (LASD) Gangs: Knock-la.com.

There is a “Blue Code of Silence “between and among peace officers throughout the nation, and everyone knows this. This is no startling revelation. The County of Los Angeles has itself released a report Commissioned by the Board of Supervisors, acknowledging the existence of, and actually condemning, the Sheriff’s Department’s own rogue gangs of sadistic jailers at the Los Angeles County Central Men’s Jail. See, The Citizens Commission on Jail Violence September 28, 2012.

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

A retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Captain reported to the Los Angeles Times, that the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail was, essentially, a torture chamber, run by these jailer gangs (tattoos of their gang symbols on their ankles and all) of sadistic sociopaths. Discipline for beatings was not existent, and torturing inmates was actually required for jailer gang initiation. See, “Los Angeles County sheriff’s official tells of jail brutality”, Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2012. See also, “Los Angeles County jail violence sheriff’s fault, panel says“, LA Times, September 28, 2012. Rival Sheriff’s Department jailer gangs even got into a rumble between the “3000 Boys” (the third floor jailers) and the “2000 Boys” (the second floor jailers)at a Sheriff’s Department Christmas party.

THE LAPD’S AND LASD’S MOTTO IS “WE’RE THE BADEST GANG IN TOWN”.

50 Years of Deputy Gangs in LASD
50 Years of Deputy Gangs in LASD

A recent study of the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department (LASD) that was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (“Report of the Citizens Commission on Jail Violence“) actually found that there is a culture within the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department of various “gangs of officers”, who routinely beat, torture, maim and kill members of the jails, and of the community, for fun; for the honor of the gang. Everybody is a scumbag, and have no rights.

One of those gangs was “the Vikings”, whose “colors” was the Minnesota Vikings Football Team log tattooed on their lower legs. The Former Undersheriff, Paul Tanaka, was a Viking gang member when he was a Captain at the Lynwood Sheriff’s Station. The Vikings were found by United States District Judge Jesse Curits to be a Neo-Nazi / White Supremacist gang within the ranks of the Los Angles County Sheriff’s Department; See, Thomas v. County of LA, et al; 978 F.2d 504 (1992).

Some of the LASD gangs of these gangster deputies are: The 3000 Club (the deputies who worked the third floor of the L.A. County Men’s Central Jail), The Grim Reapers, The Little Devils, The Regulators, The Vikings and The Jump Off Boys.

In 2014, six LASD Deputy Sheriffs were convicted of obstructing the FBI’s investigation of the torturing of prisoners at the Los Angeles County Jails. That’s not the end of it. Former LASD Deputy Sheriff Noel Womack pleaded guilty in June of 2015 to federal charges of lying to the FBI about systemic LASD torturing and framing of inmates at the LA County Jails.

SHERIFF LEE BACA AND UNDERSHERIFF PAUL TANAKA ARE OFF TO PRISON.

On May 13, 2015 former LA County Sheriff’s Department Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, along with a retired Los County Sheriff’s Department Captain, were indicted on May 13, 2015 by a federal Grand Jury for Obstructing and Conspiring to Obstruct a federal Grand Jury investigation of the rampant torturing of inmates at the Los Angeles County Jail (See, Paul Tanaka Indictment of May 13, 2015.) Those Indictments also resulted in the resignation of LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, as Tanaka implicated Baca as having approved the LASD scheme to thwart the FBI investigation of tortures, beatings and murders of inmates by deputies at the L.A. County Jails.

On February 10, 2016, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca pleaded guilty to violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2) for trying to stymie the federal probe into his deputies routinely beating and torturing inmates at the Los Angeles County Jails and in having his deputies hide an FBI informant – jail inmate from his FBI handlers. He admitted even approving a team of his deputy sheriff’s attempting to interfere with the government’s investigation by threatening an FBI agent at her home with arrest.

Thereafter, on April 6, 2016, former Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Undersheriff Paul Tanaka was convicted by a jury of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371(conspiring to obstruct justice) and 18 U.S.C. § 1503(a) (obstructing justice), for not only obstructing an FBI investigation into years of beatings and torturing of inmates at the Los Angeles County Jail, but also Tanaka and other high ranking Sheriff’s Department officials threatening one of the FBI agents involved in that investigation, with arrest for continuing that investigation.

WHY IS THIS TOLERATED BY THE PUBLIC?

One might think, why are these cops acting like Nazis; literally, not metaphorically? Why is this allowed to persist? Things have gotten so bad at the LASD that now the United States Department of Justice Indicted 18 LASD Deputy Sheriffs and their Supervisors on charges ranging from Obstruction of Justice and torturing prisoners.

Nonetheless, the body politic tolerates the existence, and the perpetuation of an ongoing unwritten agreement among and between peace officers, to falsely report, and, if necessary, to thereafter conspire with officers who they may not yet even know, to falsely testify, about event(s), if the potential or apparent criminal, administrative and civil liability of a fellow officer is at stake. After all, in the primary category of cases that truly are “false arrests” in the most malevolent sense of the word, “Contempt of Cop cases”, the only reason that there’s an arrest of a civilian at all, is because the Constable has violated another (i.e. beaten-up / torture); usually to self-medicate rather frail and easily bruise-able egos.

WE CAN HELP YOU.

If you are the victim of police misconduct, we can help you.

Serving the following cities:

Acton

Agoura Hills

Alhambra

Altadena

Arcadia

Artesia

Avalon

Azusa

Baldwin Park

Bell Gardens

Bellflower

Beverly Hills

Burbank

Calabasas

Canoga Park

Canyon Country

Carson

Castaic

Cerritos

Chatsworth

Claremont

Compton

Covina

Culver City

Diamond Bar

Downey

Duarte

El Monte

El Segundo

Encino

Gardena

Glendale

Glendora

Granada Hills

Hacienda Heights

Harbor City

Hawaiian Gardens

Hawthorne

Hollywood

Inglewood

La Canada Flintridge

La Crescenta

La Mirada

La Puente

La Verne

Lake Hughes

Lakewood

Lancaster

Lawndale

Littlerock

Llano

Lomita

Long Beach

Los Angeles

Lynwood

Malibu

Manhattan Beach

Marina Del Rey

Maywood

Mission Hills

Monrovia

Montebello

Monterey Park

Montrose

Mount Wilson

Newhall

North Hills

North Hollywood

Northridge

Norwalk

Pacific Palisades

Pacoima

Palmdale

Palos Verdes Peninsula

Panorama City

Paramount

Pasadena

Pearblossom

Pico Rivera

Playa Del Rey

Playa Vista

Pomona

Porter Ranch

Rancho Palos Verdes

Redondo Beach

Reseda

Rosemead

Rowland Heights

San Dimas

San Fernando

San Gabriel

San Marino

San Pedro

Santa Clarita

Santa Fe Springs

Santa Monica

Temple City

Tarzana

Topanga

Torrance

Tujunga

Valencia

Valley Village

Hermosa Beach

Huntington Park

Valyermo

Van Nuys

Venice Beach

Verdugo City

Walnut

Watts

West Covina

West Hills

West Hollywood

Whittier

Wilmington

Winnetka

Woodland Hills

Sherman Oaks

Sierra Madre

Signal Hill

South El Monte

South Gate

South Pasadena

StevensonRanch

Studio City

Sun Valley

Sunland

Sylmar

       

LOS ANGELES, CA POLICE MISCONDUCT ATTORNEY

Jerry L. Steering is a Los Angeles Police Misconduct Attorney in California. Mr. Steering has been suing police officers and defending bogus criminal cases (mostly bogus crimes against police officers) since 1984.

City of Los Angeles
City of Los Angeles

The majority of our firm’s law practice, is suing police officers and other government officials, for claims such as false arrest, police brutality /excessive force, malicious prosecutionfabrication of evidence and other “Constitutional Torts”, including police whistleblowing cases (Cal. Labor Code Section 1102.5.) and defending bogus criminal cases against the victims of such abuse by the police; almost always for the same incident that the civilian – victim sues for.

Mr. Steering has been suing police officers and defending bogus criminal cases of crimes against police officers, since 1984. 

THE POLICE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE BRUTAL AND CORRUPT.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is the largest Sheriff’s Department in the United States. Yet, they did not audio record their contact with the public, including when they detained, arrested and used force upon civilians, until early 2022. It’s real simple. They only want one side of the story; their side.

They know that the public is still in Fantasy Land about the police, and they know they are professional liars / perjurers, who the public almost always believes in a swearing contest with a civilian.

The LAPD may consider themselves the “Badest Gang in Town”, but the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department almost makes the LAPD look civilized.

These days, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has come under political fire for fostering an ongoing culture of “Deputy Gangs” in the Sheriff’s Department. This is no joke. These Deputy Gangs literally murder innocents; often just to be admitted to the gang. Again, this is no joke. See, L.A. County panel launches investigation into Sheriff’s Department ‘deputy gangs’, Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2022. See alsoFifty Years of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Loyola Marymount School of Law. See also, the Database of Los Angeles Sheriffs’ Department (LASD) Gangs: Knock-la.com.

There is a “Blue Code of Silence “between and among peace officers throughout the nation, and everyone knows this. This is no startling revelation. The County of Los Angeles has itself released a report Commissioned by the Board of Supervisors, acknowledging the existence of, and actually condemning, the Sheriff’s Department’s own rogue gangs of sadistic jailers at the Los Angeles County Central Men’s Jail. See, The Citizens Commission on Jail Violence September 28, 2012.

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

A retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Captain reported to the Los Angeles Times, that the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail was, essentially, a torture chamber, run by these jailer gangs (tattoos of their gang symbols on their ankles and all) of sadistic sociopaths. Discipline for beatings was not existent, and torturing inmates was actually required for jailer gang initiation. See, “Los Angeles County sheriff’s official tells of jail brutality”, Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2012. See also, “Los Angeles County jail violence sheriff’s fault, panel says“, LA Times, September 28, 2012. Rival Sheriff’s Department jailer gangs even got into a rumble between the “3000 Boys” (the third floor jailers) and the “2000 Boys” (the second floor jailers)at a Sheriff’s Department Christmas party.

THE LAPD’S AND LASD’S MOTTO IS “WE’RE THE BADEST GANG IN TOWN”.

A recent study of the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department (LASD) that was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (“Report of the Citizens Commission on Jail Violence“) actually found that there is a culture within the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department of various “gangs of officers”, who routinely beat, torture, maim and kill members of the jails, and of the community, for fun; for the honor of the gang. Everybody is a scumbag, and have no rights.

One of those gangs was “the Vikings”, whose “colors” was the Minnesota Vikings Football Team log tattooed on their lower legs. The Former Undersheriff, Paul Tanaka, was a Viking gang member when he was a Captain at the Lynwood Sheriff’s Station. The Vikings were found by United States District Judge Jesse Curits to be a Neo-Nazi / White Supremacist gang within the ranks of the Los Angles County Sheriff’s Department; See, Thomas v. County of LA, et al; 978 F.2d 504 (1992).

Some of the LASD gangs of these gangster deputies are: The 3000 Club (the deputies who worked the third floor of the L.A. County Men’s Central Jail), The Grim Reapers, The Little Devils, The Regulators, The Vikings and The Jump Off Boys.

In 2014, six LASD Deputy Sheriffs were convicted of obstructing the FBI’s investigation of the torturing of prisoners at the Los Angeles County Jails. That’s not the end of it. Former LASD Deputy Sheriff Noel Womack pleaded guilty in June of 2015 to federal charges of lying to the FBI about systemic LASD torturing and framing of inmates at the LA County Jails.

SHERIFF LEE BACA AND UNDERSHERIFF PAUL TANAKA ARE OFF TO PRISON.

On May 13, 2015 former LA County Sheriff’s Department Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, along with a retired Los County Sheriff’s Department Captain, were indicted on May 13, 2015 by a federal Grand Jury for Obstructing and Conspiring to Obstruct a federal Grand Jury investigation of the rampant torturing of inmates at the Los Angeles County Jail (See, Paul Tanaka Indictment of May 13, 2015.) Those Indictments also resulted in the resignation of LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, as Tanaka implicated Baca as having approved the LASD scheme to thwart the FBI investigation of tortures, beatings and murders of inmates by deputies at the L.A. County Jails.

On February 10, 2016, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca pleaded guilty to violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2) for trying to stymie the federal probe into his deputies routinely beating and torturing inmates at the Los Angeles County Jails and in having his deputies hide an FBI informant – jail inmate from his FBI handlers. He admitted even approving a team of his deputy sheriff’s attempting to interfere with the government’s investigation by threatening an FBI agent at her home with arrest.

Thereafter, on April 6, 2016, former Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Undersheriff Paul Tanaka was convicted by a jury of violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371(conspiring to obstruct justice) and 18 U.S.C. § 1503(a) (obstructing justice), for not only obstructing an FBI investigation into years of beatings and torturing of inmates at the Los Angeles County Jail, but also Tanaka and other high ranking Sheriff’s Department officials threatening one of the FBI agents involved in that investigation, with arrest for continuing that investigation.

WHY IS THIS TOLERATED BY THE PUBLIC?

One might think, why are these cops acting like Nazis; literally, not metaphorically? Why is this allowed to persist? Things have gotten so bad at the LASD that now the United States Department of Justice Indicted 18 LASD Deputy Sheriffs and their Supervisors on charges ranging from Obstruction of Justice and torturing prisoners.

Nonetheless, the body politic tolerates the existence, and the perpetuation of an ongoing unwritten agreement among and between peace officers, to falsely report, and, if necessary, to thereafter conspire with officers who they may not yet even know, to falsely testify, about event(s), if the potential or apparent criminal, administrative and civil liability of a fellow officer is at stake. After all, in the primary category of cases that truly are “false arrests” in the most malevolent sense of the word, “Contempt of Cop cases”, the only reason that there’s an arrest of a civilian at all, is because the Constable has violated another (i.e. beaten-up / torture); usually to self-medicate rather frail and easily bruise-able egos.

WE CAN HELP YOU.

If you are the victim of police misconduct, we can help you.

Serving the following cities:

Acton

Agoura Hills

Alhambra

Altadena

Arcadia

Artesia

Avalon

Azusa

Baldwin Park

Bell Gardens

Bellflower

Beverly Hills

Burbank

Calabasas

Canoga Park

Canyon Country

Carson

Castaic

Cerritos

Chatsworth

Claremont

Compton

Covina

Culver City

Diamond Bar

Downey

Duarte

El Monte

El Segundo

Encino

Gardena

Glendale

Glendora

Granada Hills

Hacienda Heights

Harbor City

Hawaiian Gardens

Hawthorne

Hollywood

Inglewood

La Canada Flintridge

La Crescenta

La Mirada

La Puente

La Verne

Lake Hughes

Lakewood

Lancaster

Lawndale

Littlerock

Llano

Lomita

Long Beach

Los Angeles

Lynwood

Malibu

Manhattan Beach

Marina Del Rey

Maywood

Mission Hills

Monrovia

Montebello

Monterey Park

Montrose

Mount Wilson

Newhall

North Hills

North Hollywood

Northridge

Norwalk

Pacific Palisades

Pacoima

Palmdale

Palos Verdes Peninsula

Panorama City

Paramount

Pasadena

Pearblossom

Pico Rivera

Playa Del Rey

Playa Vista

Pomona

Porter Ranch

Rancho Palos Verdes

Redondo Beach

Reseda

Rosemead

Rowland Heights

San Dimas

San Fernando

San Gabriel

San Marino

San Pedro

Santa Clarita

Santa Fe Springs

Santa Monica

Temple City

Tarzana

Topanga

Torrance

Tujunga

Valencia

Valley Village

Hermosa Beach

Huntington Park

Valyermo

Van Nuys

Venice Beach

Verdugo City

Walnut

Watts

West Covina

West Hills

West Hollywood

Whittier

Wilmington

Winnetka

Woodland Hills

Sherman Oaks

Sierra Madre

Signal Hill

South El Monte

South Gate

South Pasadena

StevensonRanch

Studio City

Sun Valley

Sunland

Sylmar