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 City of Bell, California, throughout Los Angeles 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.
THE POLICE IN BELL, CALIFORNIA, ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
Bell is an incorporated city in Los Angeles County, California. The City of Bell has an estimated population of 34,000 residents, 89% of whom are Hispanic, and approximately 9% of whom are White, of 2% whom are Blacks and 1% of whom are Asians.
Unlike other smaller cities in Los Angeles County, Bell has its own police department, the headquarters of which is located at 6330 Pine Ave., Bell, California.
Bell has a significant problem with criminal street gang activity. The major criminal street gangs in the City of Bell are the Gifford Locos gang, the Hacienda Heights gang, the Jardin gang, the Orchard Street gang, the Chanslor Street gang, the Loma Vista Place Locos gang and the Bear Street Crazies gang.
These Hispanic criminal street gang terrorize a large portion of the City of Bell, and the Bell Police Department has had its hands full dealing with these street gangsters.
The Bell Police Department also has had its problems with its officers shooting civilians under questionable circumstances. See, Bell police officer shoots man; investigation underway, LASD says, KTLA 5 News, Dec 30, 2024. See also, Non-Fatal Officer Involved Shooting of Vinson Ramos by Bell Police Department, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, July 2016 and Non-Fatal Officer Involved Shooting of Lucio Valdez by Bell Police Department, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, July 2016; Bell police shoot man who allegedly advanced on them with knife, Whittier Daily News, September 20, 2023; Man shot by officers released from hospital, booked into jail, City News Service, December 30, 2024; Police investigating fatal shooting of 38-year-old man in Bell, KCAL 9 News, March 13, 2023; Bell police officers shoot and critically wound suicidal man, HEY SoCal, June 21, 2021.
No matter how unjustified the shooting of a civilian may be, there is basically a 0% chance that a police officer in Los Angeles County is going to be criminally prosecuted for any such shootings. A review of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office website tells this sad tale. See, 2025 Officer Involved Shootings.
When police officers have to deal with street gangsters on a daily basis, many of them adopt a gangster mentality. Too often one hears Bell Police Department police officers boast “We’re the baddest gang in town”.
This may be the necessary attitude to deal with real-deal street gang members, but not with basically law-abiding citizens. Accordingly, when basically law-abiding citizens are treated like street gang members, they often verbally protest or verbally challenge police orders or actions.
Many law-biding citizens (save minor traffic violations) are taken aback when they are ordered to prone themselves down on the roadway, or to exit their vehicles and being subjected to pat-down searches during routine traffic stops for minor traffic violations. When they react to such treatment with surprise and verbal protest, they are now deemed to be in “Contempt of Cop“.
When that happens, the basically law-abiding motorists then end-up being beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed, and thereafter falsely arrested and maliciously criminally 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 happens every day in Bell, California, and throughout the State of California. Moreover, things have now become acutely worse with illegal ICE Immigration raids and immigration arrests of persons because they are brown or don’t speak English. See, Immigration raid at car wash sparks tense scene, hours of protests in Bell, Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2025.
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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