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 Huntington Park, 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. 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 HUNTINGTON PARK ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. The City of Huntington Park has a longstanding and well-earned reputation for police brutality. See, Huntington Park Department Leads Southeast in Police Brutality Claims, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1986 (Huntington Park police officers are accused of brutality more frequently than officers of any other municipal police department in the Southeast/Long Beach area). See also, Family of double-amputee fatally shot by Huntington Park police says officers murdered him, out of his wheelchair, KABC7 News, January 30, 2023 (man with amputated in both legs at the knee shot while moving away from the officers); See also, Huntington Park woman was punched by a police officer as her home burned, Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2024. Most of the time that Huntington Park police officers beat and falsely arrest basically law-abiding civilians are in situations involving what the police profession call “Contempt of Cop“; verbal protest or verbal challenge of police orders or actions. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw. Even since 1969 in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), police officers have had the power to detain and frisk persons for whom they did not have probable cause to believe that they committed a crime. This power to detain persons and to frisk them when the officer does not have sufficient evidence to arrest them has been enlarged to absurd levels, and is the basis for most Contempt of Cop situations in today’s policing. As the sole dissenter in Terry v. Ohio, William O. Douglas pointed out: “The infringement on personal liberty of any “seizure” of a person can only be “reasonable” under the Fourth Amendment if we require the police to possess “probable cause” before they seize him. Only that line draws a meaningful distinction between an officer’s mere inkling and the presence of facts within the officer’s personal knowledge which would convince a reasonable man that the person seized has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a particular crime. “In dealing with probable cause, . . . as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.” Brinegar v. United States, 338 U. S. 160, 175. To give the police greater power than a magistrate is to take a long step down the totalitarian path. Perhaps such a step is desirable to cope with modern forms of lawlessness. But if it is taken, it should be the deliberate choice of the people through a constitutional amendment.” A judge cannot order a person to be detained for investigation or frisked. However, under Terry v. Ohio, a police officer has the power to do just that. Mr. Justice Douglas was correct in his prediction that “To give the police greater power than a magistrate is to take a long step down the totalitarian path” would basically result in a police state. Ergo, when innocent civilians verbally protest or verbally challenge Huntington Park police orders or actions, they are often beaten or pepper-sprayed or tased, and then falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, that is more than willing to protect the police from civil liability to you by falsely and maliciously prosecuting you 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 common in Huntington Park. This is today’s reality. IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU. 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
