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 Dana Point, throughout Orange 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 CUDAHY ARE BRUTAL AND ARE VERY INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Cudahy is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California and has one of the highest population densities of any incorporated city in the United States, with an estimated population of 28,000 residents; approximately 90% of whom are Hispanic. Cudahy resembles a Mexican border town more than it does a Los Angeles suburb. Entrenched gangs and Mexican drug trafficking have trapped working-class legal and illegal immigrants in a cycle of violence and fear, in a city where less than a quarter of the 28,000 residents are eligible to vote. Cudahy is also infested with criminal street gangs, including the Clara Street Locos (CLCS) gang, the Tot Lot Mob (TLM) gang, the Kdubs (KWS) gang, the Diablos gang, the Midget Locos gang and the Tiny Winos gang. Unfortunately, criminal street gangs are not the only criminal gangs in Cudahy. For more than 50 years, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has also been infested with gangs of deputy sheriffs. See, CJLP Releases Report on Impact of L.A. Deputy Sheriff Gangs; 50 Years of Gangs in the L.A. Sheriff’s Department; Loyola Law School; Commission report finds LA Sheriff deputy gangs ‘run’ certain patrol stations. KCAL 9 News; See also, LA Sheriff’s Department Has Several Secret Deputy Gangs, Report Finds, CBS News; Report: Gangs have taken control of LA sheriff’s department, News Nation, June 2, 2022; The L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy-Gang Crisis, The New Yorker, May 30, 2022; Gang Members Hold Positions at ‘Highest Levels’ of LA Sheriff’s Department, Investigation Reveals, Rolling Stone, March 7, 2023; FBI investigating tattooed deputy gangs in Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles Times, July 11, 2019. The East Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has provided police services for Cudahy since 2010. Those Sheriff’s Department deputies deploy out of the East Los Angeles Station. That station is run by the Bandidos gang of deputies. More L.A. Deputies Accused of Being Part of “Banditos” Gang, PBS News. Lawsuit over alleged Banditos deputy gang assault at Kennedy Hall settles on eve of trial, Los Angeles Times, January 31, 2025; Los Banditos; East LA Station has been a notorious LASD gang hub for decades, but not every deputy is welcome, Knock LA, April 1, 2021. Over the past 30 years, litigation related to deputy gangs at the East LA Station has cost taxpayers more than $36 million. The Fort Apache insignia, which depicts a riot helmet and a boot with the words “Low profile” and “siempre una patada en los pantalones” or “always a swift kick in the pants,” was created at the station during the Chicano Moratorium, when deputies brutalized hundreds of people gathered to protest the Vietnam War. See also, More L.A. Deputies Accused of Being Part of “Banditos” Gang, PBS News, March 23, 2021. Those tactics were immortalized in a mural of the logo in the East LA Station floor. The station has been home to several deputy gangs, including the Little Devils, Cavemen, and the newest addition, the Banditos. The deputies at the East L.A. Station have adopted as their motto “We’re the baddest gang in town”, and the are not kidding. The problem is not that they are treating real criminal street gang members like hardened criminals. The problem is that the deputies in Cudahy from the East L.A. Sheriff’s Station are treating those basically law-abiding citizens as if they were gang members. Traffic stops of perfectly innocent people in Cudahy often involve ordering motorists to exist their vehicles at gun point, proning them on the street, handcuffing and searching them and their vehicles for even the most minor traffic violations. When those innocent law-abiding citizens then rightfully verbally protest or verbally challenge police actions, they are deemed in “contempt of cop“. When that happens, they often are then beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed or sometimes even shot, and thereafter 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 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
