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 Norwalk, 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 NORWALK ARE BRUTAL AND INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. The City of Norwalk contracts with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department its police services. That agency is beyond brutal. They are an agency of deputy gangsters. See, Gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are banned with new policy, KCAL / KCBS News, September 19, 2024. Some of these deputy gangs have been around for several generations of deputies. See, L.A. is investigating 50-year-old police gangs, finally, Reuters, March 30, 2022. Some of these deputy gangs like the Compton Station “Executioners” or the East L.A. Station “Bandidos” actually required deputy sheriffs to actually shoot and kill a civilian on-duty to be admitted to the gang. When they are ultimately admitted to the station gang, they will thereafter bare the station tattoo; for life. This longstanding culture of gangs of deputy sheriffs, including supervisors, routinely beat, tase, pepper-spray, falsely arrest and maliciously prosecute anyone who they consider being “guilty” of “Contempt of Cop”; verbal protest or verbal challenge to deputy orders or actions. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw. See also, CJLP Releases Report on Impact of L.A. Deputy Sheriff Gangs, Loyola Marymount Law School Center for Juvenile Law & Policy, 2024. According to the Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector General: “The Sheriff’s Department has gone to great lengths to keep its conduct secret. The unlawful acts and potentially unlawful acts enumerated in our reports show a pattern and practice of the repudiation of oversight by the Office of Inspector General, the Civilian Oversight Commission, the Board, and the public.” Unlawful Conduct of LASD, Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector General Report of 2020. Notwithstanding the California legislature banning police officer gangs in law enforce agencies in 2021 with the enactment of Cal. Pen. Code § 13670, nothing has been done to ban these gangs at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Verbal protest or verbal challenge to deputy orders or actions is supposed to be constitutionally protected conduct in a free society. As Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan so eloquently stated in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in 1987 about a City of Houston, Texas Municipal Ordinance that made it unlawful to “interrupt” a police officer in the performance of his duty: “The Houston ordinance is much more sweeping than the municipal ordinance struck down in Lewis. It is not limited to fighting words nor even to obscene or opprobrious language, but prohibits speech that “in any manner . . . interrupt[s]” an officer. The Constitution does not allow such speech to be made a crime. The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.” Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987), Brennan, J. Notwithstanding your long-established right to protest or challenge police action, in the real world of modern policing, verbal protest or verbal challenge to police orders or actions will often result in a police beating, false arrest and malicious criminal prosecution. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw. This is especially true for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The Sheriff’s Department will never find the conduct of its deputies to be unlawful. It’s just not within them to do so. If you are stopped by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriff just shut your mouth, be polite and do what they say, and you will probably not get beaten or falsely arrested. 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
