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 Carpinteria, throughout San Bernardino 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’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. A right without a real-world remedy (i.e. winning your case) is no right at all; at least for you. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge” and Mr. Steering’s understanding the technical and practical legal landscape of Police Misconduct Civil Rights cases will dramatically increase your chances of winning your case; of actually enforcing your constitutional rights. THE POLICE IN CARPENTERIA ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Carpinteria is a small seaside city in southeastern Santa Barbara County, California, located on the Central Coast of California with an estimated population of 14,000. Carpinteria is a popular surf destination, and Carpinteria embraced the slogan “World’s Safest Beach” in 1912, which it still uses today. The racial makeup of Carpinteria is approximately 71.7% White, 48.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American, 1.1% Native American, 2.3% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 19.9% from other races, and 4.1% from two or more races. Carpinteria residents have an average household income of $104,233. The City of Carpeteria contracts with the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department for its police services. Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs deploy out of the Carpinteria Sheriff’s Substation, located at 5775 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, California. Notwithstanding its affluent and predominantly White population, Carpinteria still has its problems with criminal street gangs. The Carpas street gang is the only criminal street gang in Carpinteria. The gang claims the entire city as its territory. See, People of the State of California v. Galvez, 195 Cal.App.4th 1253. Carpas street gang of Carpinteria also has been implicated in several murders in Carpiteria, See, Defendant in Santa Barbara Eastside Homicides Gets New Hearing to Decide if Case Stays in Juvenile Court (Three members of the Carpas street gang of Carpinteria were arrested and charged with murder of rival gang members); Noozhawk of Santa Barbara, March 23, 2023. See also, Drugs in Carpinteria: A slow-motion disaster, CoastalView.com, February 25, 2017; Two Men Will Face Trial for January 2021 Double Murder on Santa Barbara’s Eastside, Santa Barbara Independent, November 8, 2023. 5 juveniles arrested in Santa Barbara on attempted murder charges (deputies responded to the 4500 block of Carpinteria Avenue in Carpinteria to investigate a fight in which several male suspects, armed with the same type of weapons, had attempted to assault another group of males), News Channel 12, 3, 11, April 14, 2020; Sheriff’s Deputies Arrest Two Suspects in Carpinteria, (Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two known gang members) News Channel 3-12 Because the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office patrols the streets of Carpinteria, many of those deputies are jaded from their experiences with basic street criminals and criminal street gang members in cities throughout Santa Barbara County. To those jaded deputies, everyone is a dirtbag and everyone should be treated in the way that they treat street gangsters. This is not so for even the majority of Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriff, but even if 10% of those deputies act this way, cities in the county like Carpinteria often experience law abiding citizens being accosted at gunpoint, beaten, tased, pepper-sprayed, and falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for various fabricated “resistance offenses” such as violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing a officer), Cal. Penal Code § 240/241 (assault on officer), Cal. Penal Code § 242 / 243(b) & (c) (battery on an 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 THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU ACTUALLY ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS BY WINNING YOUR CASE. 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
