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 West Hollywood, 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. “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 CALEXICO ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Calexico is a city in southern Imperial County, California. Situated on the Mexican border, it is linked economically with the much larger city of Mexicali, the capital of the Mexican state of Baja California. Calexico is 122 miles east of San Diego, California, and lies within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. The population of Calexico is approximately 39,000 residents, 97.3% of whom identify as Hispanic or Latina. Unfortunately, Calexico is plagued with a large number of Hispanic criminal street gangs, including the Sureños gangs (a network of Mexican Mafia affiliated gangs), the Mexican Mafia (or La eMe), the Paisas Gang and others. See, Three of Four Suspects in Custody in Gang Shooting in Calexico Neighborhood, Calexico Chronicle, October 14, 2023; Calexico Cops Arrest Logan Heights Gangster for Carjacking, More, Calexico Chronicle, December 12, 2023; Officials Take Down Alleged Gang-Affiliated Drug Traffickers In Imperial County; Take Drugs And Guns Off The Street, U.S. Department of Justice, October 21, 2014; Border Patrol remove ‘Sureno’ gang member from Calexico streets, The Desert Review, Feb 15, 2019; BP: Gang members arrested in Calexico, KYMA, KECY News, February 3, 2020 The Calexico Police Department has also had plenty of problems with lawsuits and federal and state investigations of that agency for corruption. See, Ex-Calexico Police Chief Settles Corruption Suit for $1.1 Million, Courthouse News Service, April 26, 2017; Feds Give Scathing Review Of Calexico Police, The Associated Press, May 18, 2016; Calexico Police Department Under Investigation by FBI, Hold Calexico Police Department Accountable, Change.com; Mar 3, 2022 (Calexico Police Department was involved in a shooting that resulted in the death of 65-year-old Manuel Rojas Barajas); Calexico Mayor OKs Fired Cop to Police Commission, Calexico Chronicle, October 21, 2023; What’s Wrong With the Police Department in Calexico, California?, The Atlantic, May 19, 2016; Calexico City Officials Charged With Corruption, U.S. Department of Justice, May 21, 2020; Morning Report: Calexico Officer Was Named ‘Officer of the Year’ … While on Probation, Voice of San Diego, November 15, 2019. Due to Calexico’s population being 97.3% who identify as Hispanic or Latina, it’s difficult to claim that the Calexico Police Department racially profiles Mexicans; they’re basically all Mexicans / Mexican Americans in Calexico. However, like other cities with different demographics, most of the time that Calexico Police Department police officers beat-up or tase or pepper-spray or falsely arrest civilians are in the context of “Contempt of Cop” situations. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw. These “Contempt of Cop” situations involve civilians verbally protesting or verbally challenging police orders or actions. That type of conduct is constitutionally protected. See, City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987) (“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.”) Americans tend to think that they “know their rights”, and in reality, they do not have the slightest idea what their First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights really are, as they are not lawyers or constitutional scholars, and those constitutional issues are very complicated and subtle. Ergo, when the public perceives their state and local police officer “violating their rights”, they verbally protest or verbally challenge police orders or actions. Such verbal remonstrance often, therefore, results in such police officers beating-up or tasing or pepper-spraying or falsely arresting those protesting / challenging civilians. The best practice in the real world with real police officers and real judges and real juries, is to shut your mouth, be polite with the officer and do what they tell you to do. This is the key to later successfully suing the police in court and actually winning. A right only exists if there is a real world remedy to enforce that right, and if you cannot convince a federal court civil jury to unanimously vote for you when you sue the police, then you have no rights because you have no way to enforce them. 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 . FREE CASE EVALUATION
