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 Egger Highlands 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.
THE SAN DIEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT PATROLS THE STREETS OF THE EGGER HIGHLANDS NEIGHBORHOOD OF SAN DIEGO.
Egger Highlands is a residential neighborhood in the southern section of downtown, San Diego, California. It neighbors Palm City and Nestor to the east, San Diego Bay to the north, Imperial Beach to the southwest and Chula Vista to the northeast.
The Egger Highlands neighborhood of San Diego is rife with street gang activity. See, 2 teens injured in shooting in Egger Highlands neighborhood, San Diego Union-Tribune, May 12, 2024; Egger Highlands Neighborhood, San Diego, Crime Rate & Statistics, July 7, 2026; 1 Killed, 3 Injured in Egger Highlands Shooting, NBC 7 San Diego; Egger Highlands, San Diego, CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps, Crime Grade.org.
As a result of violent street crime in Egger Highlands the San Diego Police Department that patrols that neighborhood often treats basically law-abiding civilians as criminal street gang members. They often forget who they are supposed to be protecting.
As a result of this phenomenon, San Diego Police Department police officers often aggressively engage civilians in Egger Highlands.
When basically law-abiding civilians are taken aback by overly aggressively police actions, such as during stops by the police for minor traffic violations, they verbally protest or verbally challenge San Diego Police Department police orders and actions. When that happens, San Diego Police Department police officers will more often than not now consider the protesting civilians as being in “Contempt of Cop”.
Verbal protest and verbal challenge to police orders and actions have long been held to be constitutionally protected conduct. As Associate United States Supreme Court Justice William Brennan so eloquently held in 1987 in striking down a City of Houston, Texas Municipal Ordinance that criminalized interrupting a police officer in the performance of his/her duties:
“The Houston ordinance is much more sweeping than the municipal ordinance struck down in Lewis. It is not limited to fighting words nor even to obscene or opprobrious language, but prohibits speech that “in any manner . . . interrupt[s]” an officer. The Constitution does not allow such speech to be made a crime. 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.” Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451, (1987), Brennan, J.
When that happens, the San Diego Police Department police officers will often then beat or tase or pepper-spray, and falsely arrest and procure the malicious criminal prosecution of those innocent protesting civilians for fabricated resistance offenses 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).
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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