Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions, wrongful deaths and First Amendment retaliation cases. Mr. Steering in an Expert and Specialist in suing the police in federal court for constitutional violations in the Bay Terraces neighborhood of San Diego, throughout San Diego County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal courts in Alabama and in the District of Columbia.
“THE YOUNG LAWYER KNOWS THE LAW, BUT THE OLD LAWYER KNOWS THE JUDGE”.
Mr. Steering’s 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. If you cannot win your Civil Rights Police Misconduct Lawsuit then you have no rights, because you have no way to enforce them, and a right without a remedy in the real world does not exist.
BAY TERRACES IS PATROLLED BY THE SAN DIEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT; AN INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST AGENCY.
Bay Terraces is a hilly urban neighborhood in the southeastern part of San Diego, California. Bay Terraces is the largest neighborhood in the Skyline-Paradise Hills Community Planning Area.
With the great influx of Filipino immigrants joining the United States Navy, especially from the Vietnam War era on to the 1990s, many Filipinos inhabited the Southeast San Diego neighborhoods of Alta Vista, Bay Terraces, Paradise Hills, Shelltown, Skyline Hills, and Valencia Park, both for the relatively affordable housing prices and its close proximity to Naval Base San Diego. Accordingly, at present, Bay Terraces remains home to a significant Filipino American population.
The population of Bay Terraces is approximately 27,585 residents. 67.1% of Bay Terraces are US-born citizens, while 23.2% have gained naturalized citizenship. At the same time, 9.7% of residents are non-citizens. As for race, 17.8% of locals are Caucasian, 14% are African American and 26.6% have Asian roots. Another 0.9% are Indigenous American, 1.2% are Pacific Islanders, while 16.4% identify as another race. There’s also a share of 23.1% that includes residents with two or more races.
CRIMINAL STREET GANGS AND POLICE OUTRAGES IN BAY TERRACES.
The streets of the Bay Terraces neighborhood are often the scene of criminal street gang activity. See, Bay Terraces: Symptoms of a greater problem, The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 28, 2019; 3 More Suspects Jailed In 2019 Bay Terraces Slaying, City News Service, December 3, 2020; San Diego police investigating shooting of teen in Bay Terraces, NBC 7 San Diego, July 28, 2023 Gang detectives investigate teen stabbing, FOX 5 News, April 24, 2024; SDPD Gang Unit investigating juvenile shooting; suspects outstanding (A boy was hospitalized today after he was shot multiple times while sitting in a car by a group of assailants in the Bay Terraces of San Diego), San Diego police identify juvenile suspect in 2021 Bay Terraces homicide, CBS 8 News San Diego, October 6, 2025.
Due to the high crime rate in the Bay Terraces neighborhood, the San Diego Police Department is quite active in the Bay Terraces shootings. See, San Diego Police Body Cam Video Shows Officers Shoot at, Miss Alleged Sex Assault Suspect in Bay Terraces, NBC 7 San Diego, July 18, 2022; SDPD Officer-Involved Shooting, San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, July 8, 2022; SDPD Officers Fatally Shoot Armed Suspect in Wild Pursuit, NBC 7 San Diego; Map: California is investigating these fatal law enforcement shootings of unarmed people, Mercury News, November 4, 2022; Police investigate shooting in Bay Terraces, KSWB San Diego, November 22, 2023; 2020 Police Violence Report; California police officer captured on video killing Black man in Walmart charged with manslaughter, NBC News; Armed Man Fatally Shot in Bay Terraces, NBC 7 San Diego.
CONTEMPT OF COP SITUATIONS IN BAY TERRACES.
However, most of the time that the San Diego Police Department abuses law-abiding civilians, is in the context of “Contempt of Cop” situations. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw.com.
San Diego Police Department police officers often become so jaded from dealing with criminal street gangsters, that they often treat nice law-abiding civilians like criminals. When they do in situations like routine traffic stops for de minimis traffic infractions, the nice law-abiding civilians are surprised by the way that they are being treated, and often verbally protest or verbally challenge police orders or actions.
So, for example, when nice law-abiding civilians are stopped for routine traffic infractions and are ordered to get out of their vehicles and prone themselves down on the street, they often verbally protest and question the police so ordering them to do so. When that happens, they are now deemed to be in “Contempt of Cop”.
When that happens, notwithstanding their well-established federal constitutional right to verbally protest or verbally challenge police actions or orders, these nice law-abiding civilians get beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed, and falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for some fabricated “resistance offense”, such as violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing 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).
This is not lefty propaganda. This is reality. If you are reading this webpage, you probably already know that.
IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU ACTUALLY ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS BY WINNING YOUR CASE.
The only thing that matters when enforcing your rights, is whether you win your case. If you don’t win your case, then you have no rights because you have no way to enforce them.
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. You need a unanimous jury of usually 8 jurors to vote in your favor in federal court to win your case. If you mouth-off to the cops or don’t do what the police tell you to do or cuss out the cops, or act like a jerk, one or more of the jurors in your case may not vote for you. That is the reality in which we all live.
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.
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. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”.
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 .
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