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 Mecca area of Riverside County, throughout Riverside 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.
MECCA IS PATROLLED BY THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT.
Mecca is an unincorporated community located in Riverside County, California, United States. The desert community lies on the north shore of the Salton Sea in the Eastern Coachella Valley and is surrounded by agricultural land.
As of the 2020 census, Mecca had a population of 8,219. The Mecca area is also 98% Hispanic.
Because the Mecca area of Riverside County is patrolled by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, if you have police contacts in that area, you might be in for a surprise; or maybe not. Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs are not known for treating Hispanic civilians kindly. There are many Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs who are Hispanic. However, that doesn’t mean that they don’t treat Hispanic civilians badly.
Mecca, California overall crime rates are higher than the national average, with varying estimates placing its overall statistics anywhere from 56% above the national median to placing the town in the 13th percentile for safety nationwide. This unincorporated community of roughly 8,200 residents in Riverside County experiences a moderate-to-high risk profile, primarily driven by localized violent crime and vehicle theft. Violent crime is estimated at 74% higher than the national average.
Property Crime in Mecca is anchored by high vehicle theft rates (roughly 46% higher than the national average).
In September of 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held that ICE officers can detain, even at gunpoint, any civilians who speak Spanish and appear to be engaged in low-wage labor such as day laborers, car wash workers and agricultural workers. See, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, 606 U. S. ____ (2025). In that seminal case, Justice Kavanaugh held that ICE officers can detain and interrogate:
” . . . those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.”
Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, 606 U. S. ____ (2025), Kavanaugh, J.
” . . . those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.”
In other words, if ICE sees a male Hispanic at Home Depot, they can detain them and interrogate them. In the real world, they do this at gunpoint with assault rifles, and while masked.
This case has also now led to “street cops”, like Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs, treating Hispanic civilians poorly. Again, this is not to say that Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs treat all Hispanic civilians poorly. However, when you have the United States Supreme Court telling law enforcement officers that they can point their guns at civilians and interrogate them because they appear to be Hispanic and don’t speak English well, we have moved into a new era of what liberty means in modern America.
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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