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 Dana Point, 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. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge” THE POLICE IN MISSION HILLS ARE BRUTAL AND INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Mission Hills is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley. Accordingly, Mission Hills is patrolled by the Los Angeles Police Department; an agency whose motto is “We’re the badest gang in town”. The Rodney King Beating In 1991. In 1991, robbery parolee Rodney G. King was badly beaten by LAPD officers after leading police on a nearly 8-mile pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles. The chase began after King, who was intoxicated, was caught speeding on a freeway by a California Highway Patrol cruiser but refused to pull over. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cruisers and a police helicopter joined the pursuit, and when King was finally stopped by Hansen Dam Park, several police cars descended on his white Hyundai. The Rodney King beating was one of the first LAPD beatings that was video recorded by a resident of the area where King was beaten. The LAPD fractured King’s skull in 9 places, and 4 LAPD Officers were criminally prosecuted by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for their beating of Rodney King. Then Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner thought that the beating of King by the LAPD Officers was so obviously unjustifiable, that he agreed to move the trial of the 4 LAPD Officers to Simi Valley, California; a suburb heavily populated by police officers and Deputy District Attorneys. What Ira Reiner learned is that “excessive force” by the police is more of a political concept than a factual one. Depending on the political orientation of the jurors, either King constantly moving up from the ground after his head was struck with a baton was him “resisting” the officers (i.e. not excessive force), or his movements were a natural reaction to “excessive force”. The pro-cop jurors in Simi Valley acquitted all 4 LAPD Officers and the black population in Los Angeles rioted in L.A., burning 5,500 buildings, and resulting in the Governor calling out the National Guard to suppress the riots. See, All 4 in King Beating Acquitted : Violence Follows Verdicts; Guard Called Out : Trial: Governor deploys troops at mayor’s request after arson, looting erupt. Ventura County jury apparently was not convinced that videotape told the whole story. Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1992. Following the acquittal of the LAPD officers in state court, the United States Attorney’s Officers criminally prosecuted those same 4 officers in federal court for violating Rodney King’s federal constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force upon him under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution under 18 U.S.C. § 242; violation of constitutional rights under color of authority. Two of the officers, Sgt. Stacey Koon and Lawrence Powell were convicted, basically because the trial was conducted in downtown Los Angeles, and the jurors were not so “pro-cop”. The Rodney King incident was one of the first documented incidents showing the brutality of the LAPD. However, the LAPD thereafter outdid the Rodney King affair in the Rampart Scandal. The LAPD Rampart Scandal. In the movie “Training Day“, Denzel Washington, plays a real-life LAPD Officer named Rafael Perez, who worked out of the LAPD’s Rampart Division. In 1995 the LAPD formed a CRASH Anti-Gang Unit that was run out of the LAPD’s Rampart Division. The Rampart Station’s CRASH Anti-Gang Unit attempted to take over the narcotics business in Central Los Angeles by murdering and framing suspected gang members drug dealers. See, Rampart, 7 years later, Los Angeles Daily News, August 29, 2017. When Rafael Perez was eventually arrested and turned states evidence, over 100 convictions of real criminals in Los Angeles County Superior Court were overturned. Following the Rampart Scandal, the Los Angeles Police Department remains an “upside down” department that puts its least-experienced and lowest-paid staffers on the front lines, lacks adequate resources and still has a widespread culture of “warrior policing.” Rampart, 7 years later, Los Angeles Daily News, August 29, 2017. In 2004, Mr. Steering obtained an $850,000.00 award from the City of Los Angeles for a young man who LAPD Rampart CRASH Officer Rafael Perez attempted to frame for a murder that took place in a McDonald’s restaurant in Central Los Angeles. Jorge Alvarez v. City of Los Angeles, et al., U.S. District Court (Los Angeles). 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. Just because the police violated your constitutional rights doesn’t mean that you can do anything about it. In order to “do something about it”, to enforce your constitutional rights, it takes a great deal of experience, insights, skill and savvy. Jerry L. Steering has been suing police agencies for constitutional violations since 1984. He has the experience, insights, skill and savvy to actually win 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
