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 Monterey Park throughout Los Angeles 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 MONTEREY PARK ARE BRUTAL AND INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Monterey Park is a city in the western San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California. The Monterey Park Police Department deploys its officers out of its headquarters located at 320 W. Newmark Ave., Monterey Park, California. For many years now the Monterey Park Police Department has had a reputation as a brutal and institutionally dishonest police agency, that routinely beats, tases, pepper-sprays, falsely arrests and procures the malicious prosecution of various “resistance offenses” to at least attempt to justify their outrages perpetrated against the public. Unfortunately, in modern times since the Supreme Court giving “the constable more power than a judge” in 1968 in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), the police have used this “awesome power” to abuse the public. Terry v. Ohio was a United States Supreme Court case made in the tumultuous year of 1968 that for the first time in the history of the American Republic allowed a police officer to detain a person on less than probable cause to arrest them, so long as: 1) the officer had facts know to him/her that the detainee had just committed a crime, or was in the process of committing a crime, or was about to commit a crime, and 2) the officer had facts know to him/her that the detainee was armed and dangerous. Terry v. Ohio was really a pat-down case; a case that permitted police officers to “pat-down” suspects for weapons so long as they had hard facts indicating to them that the person was armed and dangerous, and, suspected of “criminality afoot“. However, an officer cannot pat-down a suspect for weapons unless the officer can temporarily detain the person to do the pat-down. However, over the years Terry v. Ohio has morphed from a pat-down case to a generalized power of the police to detain person on the slightest scintilla of evidence of criminality afoot by the person. The Monterey Park Police Department is all too aware of this “awesome power” and abuses this awesome power to detain members of the public daily, very often to harass and to torment those members of the public who they consider undesirable types. This is normal and this happens every day in Monterey Park. When those detained, wrongfully or not, verbally protest or verbally challenge Monterey Park Police Department orders or actions, they are often beaten, tased, pepper-sprayed and falsely arrested for various “resistance offenses” such as violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing a officer), Cal. Penal Code § 240/241 (assault on officer), Cal. Penal Code § 242 / 243(b) & (c) (battery on officer causing injury) and Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (assault on officer with weapon); no joke. 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
