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 Piñon Hills area, throughout San Bernardino 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 THE POLICE IN PIÑON HILLS ARE BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Piñon Hills is a census-designated place in San Bernardino near the Los Angeles County line. County, California with an estimated population of 7,200 residents. The demographics of Piñon Hills is White alone, percent 75.3%, Black alone, percent 13,7%, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent 1.3%, Asian alone, percent 6.4%, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, 0.3% percent, Two or More Races, 3.1% percent, Hispanic or Latino, percent 19.5% and White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 58.4%. The City of Piñon Hills contracts with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department for its police services. That agency has a long and well-deserved reputation of using excessive force on innocents, including the unjustified use of deadly force in Piñon Hills. See, Suspect shot in Pinon Hills deputy-involved shooting, KABC 7 Eyewitness News, October 18, 2017; Officer shoots Pinon Hills man, Deputies respond to domestic battery call, which leads to high-speed chase, Daily Press; 3 Sheriff’s Officers Die in Apparent Murder, Suicide, Los Angeles Times; Deputies shoot, kill man in Pinon Hills, San Bernardino Sun, October 11, 2015; PINON HILLS: Deputy fatally shoots charging driver, The Press Enterprise, October 11, 2015; Deputy Involved Shooting in Pinon Hills, Victor Valley News Group. See also, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office’s whitewashing of the Deputy Involved Shooting of Armando Juarez on September 20, 2020 by Deputy Sheriff Cesar Montes. San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office Public Release Memorandum of December 20, 2021 (Armando Juarez shot by Deputy Sheriff Cesar Montes while reaching for his cell phone while unarmed). See also, Jury awards $33.5 million to parents of 29-year-old man killed by San Bernardino County deputy, Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2018; Deputies shoot into car and kill driver at Lucerne Valley gas station; suspect allegedly backed into patrol vehicle, San Bernardino Sun, December 19, 2020; Woman killed in deputy shooting in Victorville tried to drive her vehicle toward deputy, officials say, San Bernardino Sun, October 3, 2018; Man shot by deputies in Lucerne Valley mobile home park after opening fire: SBSD, KTLA 5 News, September 4, 2020. The City of Piñon Hills also has its problems with criminal street gangs. See, Multiple Arrests and Firearms Seized in Targeted Crime Operation Across San Bernardino and Hesperia, Victor Valley News Group, Mar. 26, 2025; 14 Firearms, Including 5 Ghost Guns; 15 Felony and 16 Misdemeanor Arrests Made in Week-Long Crime Suppression Effort, Victor Valley News Group, March 3, 2025. In 1968 the U.S. Supreme Court in an 8-1 decision, for the first time allowed the police to detain and frisk person who they did not have probable cause to arrest in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968). That case was the beginning of the modern police state. As Justice William O. Douglas forewarned in his lone dissenting Opinion in Terry v. Ohio: “The requirement of probable cause has roots that are deep in our history. . . . “That philosophy [rebelling against these practices] later was reflected in the Fourth Amendment. And as the early American decisions both before and immediately after its adoption show, common rumor or report, suspicion, or even ‘strong reason to suspect’ was not adequate to support a warrant for arrest. And that principle has survived to this day. . . .” “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. 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.” Since Terry v. Ohio the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department also has its problems with a substantial percentage of its deputy sheriffs letting their “greater power than a magistrate” go to their head and treat law-abiding citizens like street hoods. When for example, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs stop motorists for minor traffic offenses, and demand that they exit their vehicles, and be subjected to have their persons and their vehicles searched, and being proned-out on the ground or made to sit on the curb, they often verbally protest or verbally challenge police orders or actions. When that happens, those law-abiding citizens are now deemed in “Contempt of Cop“. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw. That status will then often results in the law-abiding citizens then being beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed, and falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for some imaginary “resistance offense”, 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). 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. 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
