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 Lompoc, throughout Santa Barbara 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. Lompoc is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, with an estimated population of 45,000. Lompoc has its own police department, located at 100 Civic Center Plaza, Lompoc, California. The racial and ethnic makeup of Lompoc is approximately 57.3% Hispanic or Latino of any race, 29.9% Non-Hispanic White, 4% African American, 3.6% Asian, 0.65% Native American, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.37% other races and 3.8% from two or more races. Unfortunately, the streets of Lompoc are riddled with criminal street gang activity. See, Lompoc community reacts to rising youth gang violence, KKFX FOX News, 2021; Police arrest 22-year-old Lompoc gang member, find “ghost gun”, News Channel, 12 CBS, 3 ABC, 11 FOX, May 2, 2024; Lompoc juvenile sentenced to 8 years for gang-related shooting, Lompoc Record, October 16, 2020; Expert witness describes gang activity in Lara murder retrial (high-ranking member of the Lompoc “Westside VLP gang” killed following an altercation with members of the rival 62Brims gang), Lompoc Record, November 7, 2017; Lompoc police reports arrest of multiple gang members (arrests linked to the rise in gun and gang related crimes throughout Lompoc) News Channel, 12 CBS, 3 ABC, 11 FOX, November 18, 2020; Members of Central Coast Street Gangs Named in Federal Drug Trafficking Indictments Arrested by Authorities, (arrests of Lompoc-based subset of the Six Deuce Brims Bloods and the Northwest (Santa Maria) street gang, the largest Hispanic gang on the Central Coast which is affiliated with the Mexican Mafia prison gang) U.S. Department of Justice; Lompoc sees rise in gang, gun violence, Santa Maria Sun, November 23, 2020; Lompoc police report uptick in gang-related crimes, KSBY News, November 18, 2020. Because Lompoc Police Department police officers have to deal with criminal street gangsters on a daily basis, many of them have become so jaded that they consider themselves “The Baddest Gang in Town”. When the police adopt a street gangster mentality, the innocent law-abiding member of the public suffer. The police treat just about everyone that they come in contact with as if they are gang members. Even during traffic stops for minor vehicle code violations, they tend to order innocents out of their vehicles, frisk innocents for weapons, prone innocents down on the street, handcuff innocents place them in the back seat of their police cars while illegally searching the innocent motorists and their vehicles. This is not lefty propaganda; this is reality. Then, when these innocent basically law-abiding citizens are treated like criminals, they often verbally protest or verbally challenge being treated this way. When that happens the jaded Lompoc police officers now deem them to be in “Contempt of Cop”. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw. When that happens, innocents are often then beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed, and then 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). Again, 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
