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 El Centro, throughout Imperial 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. It doesn’t matter what the law states, or what the Judge says, or what the jury instructions say, or even what the evidence shows, if a jury of 8 cop-loving jurors is not going to unanimously vote for you in your federal court Police Misconduct Civil Rights case. 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 EL CENTRO ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. El Centro is a city and county seat of Imperial County, California, that has an estimated population of 44,000 residents. El Centro is the most populous city in the Imperial Valley. The City of El Centro has its own police department, located at 150 N. 11th Street, El Centro, California. El Centro is a highly Hispanic city, with 86.9% of the residents of that city being Hispanic, 7.6% being White alone, 4.3% being Black alone and 1.2% Asian alone. El Centro is riddled with criminal street gang activity, basically all of which are Hispanic street gangs. The major criminal street gangs in El Centro are the North Side Centro 12 Oak Street gang, the West Side Centro 13 gang, the East Side Centro 13 Heil Street gang, the South Side Centro Mexican Locos 13 Aurora Street gang and the Posada 13 gang. These criminal street gangs have wreaked havoc on the residents of El Centro. See, El Centro Sector Arrests “18th Street” Gang Member, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol; Officials Take Down Alleged Gang-Affiliated Drug Traffickers In Imperial County; Take Drugs And Guns Off The Street, U.S. Department of Justice; HSI-led probe targets major Southern California drug trafficking network with gang ties, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol; ICE arrests 976 gang members and associates during ‘Project Wildfire’ surge, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol; Forty-Eight Defendants Charged in Imperial Valley Takedown of Drug Trafficking Network Linked to Sinaloa Cartel, U.S. Department of Justice. The City of El Centro has also had its problems with its police department abusing the public. See, SoCal City Shells Out Record $4.1M in Police Misconduct Suit (El Centro Police failed to provide medical attention to man overdosing on narcotics) Courthouse News Service, March 2, 2017; ECPD officer facing law suit from prior job (El Centro faulted for hiring former Huntington Beach police officer accused of strangling man on duty), Imperial Valley Press, November 11, 2021; UPDATE: El Centro Police Deny Bodycam Video of Fatal Shooting; Daughter of Victim Sues for Release, Calexico Chronicle, June 4, 2020; ECPD Officer-Involved Shooting Probe Continues, Related Lawsuit Pending, Holtville Tribune, May 27, 2021; ECPD Releases Video, 911 Calls of Aug. Officer Shooting, Calexico Chronicle, November 24, 2023. Because El Centro Police Department police officers frequently deal with criminal street gangsters many El Centro police officers become so jaded that they treat law-abiding civilians like street gang members. For example, El Centro Police Department police officers will often order motorists who are stopped for minor traffic infractions exit their vehicles, submit to searches of their persons and of their vehicles, submit to being handcuffed and being proned-out on the street or made to sit-down on the curb. When law-abiding civilians are treated like known criminals they often verbally protest or verbally challenge those police orders or actions. Thereafter, when these basically law-abiding civilians verbally protest or verbally challenge those degrading police orders or actions, those jaded police officers are now deemed in “Contempt of Cop“; see, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw. Notwithstanding that verbal protest or verbal challenge is constitutionally protected conduct (See, City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987)(Brennan, J.), when El Centro Police Department police officers deem one in “Contempt of Cop“, they will often then beat, tase, pepper-spray, and falsely arrest and maliciously prosecute those law-abiding civilians for “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 left wing 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. 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. 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
