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 North Hills neighborhood in San Fernando Valley area of the City of Los Angeles, 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 NORTH HILLS ARE BRUTAL AND INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. North Hills being a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, is patrolled by the Los Angeles Police Department; “The badest gang in town”. Contrary to televisions shows like “Dragnet” and “Adam 12” that portray LAPD Officers as non-violent professionals who are polite to the public and almost never pull their guns out, the reality of policing in Los Angeles and generally in California is quite different. It’s a lot more like the type of policing shown in the classic movie about the LAPD in the 1950s, “L.A. Confidential“. That film tells the story of a group of LAPD officers in 1953, and the intersection of incredible police corruption and Hollywood celebrity. Until the Rodney King incident in 1991 most Angelinos were still living in a fantasy world about the LAPD. However, the Rodney King incident marked the beginning of public actually seeing video recorded outrageous LAPD beatings The Rodney King Beating In 1991. In 1991 parolee Rodney King was badly beaten by LAPD officers after leading police on an 8-mile vehicle pursuit in Los Angeles. A convoy of LAPD patrol cars and a LAPD helicopter pursued King, who was finally stopped by Hansen Dam Park. The LAPD Officers beat King with their batons, fracturing his skull in 9 places. Because King’s beating was captured on a VHS video recording of a man near the scene of the stop, 4 LAPD Officers were criminally prosecuted by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for their beating of King. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner thought that the beating of King by the LAPD Officers was so obviously outrageous that he agreed to move the trial of the 4 LAPD Officers from downtown Los Angeles to the bedroom suburb community of Simi Valley, California; a suburb heavily populated by police officers and Deputy District Attorneys. What Ira Reiner and the public learned from the State Court prosecution of those 4 LAPD Officers is that “excessive force” by the police is more of a political concept than a factual one. The “pro-cop” jurors in Simi Valley acquitted all 4 LAPD Officers, and the black population in Los Angeles rioted, burning 5,500 structures in Los Angeles, 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 4 LAPD officers in state court, the U.S. 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 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution under 18 U.S.C. § 242; violation of constitutional rights under color of authority. Two of the LAPD officers, Sgt. Stacey Koon and Lawrence Powell, were convicted of violating King’s constitutional right to be free from an unreasonable seizure of his person (i.e. excessive force under the 4th Amendment), basically because the trial was conducted in downtown Los Angeles rather than Simi Valley. As bad at the Rodney King was, is paled in comparison to the LAPD Rampart Scandal. The LAPD Rampart Scandal. In the movie “Training Day“, Denzel Washington, plays a real-life LAPD Officer named Rafael Perez, who worked in the LAPD’s CRASH Anti-Gang Unit out of the LAPD Rampart Division station. 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 Scandal Exposed: The corruption filled Truth About the LAPD and dirty cops like Rafael Perez. Rafael Perez was eventually arrested and turned state’s evidence, resulting in over 100 convictions of real criminals in Los Angeles County Superior Court being overturned. 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
