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 Ojai, throughout Ventura 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. THE POLICE IN OJAI ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Ojai is a city in Ventura County, California with an estimated population of 8,000. The City of Ojai contracts with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office for its police services. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department deploys out of the Ojai Station located at 402 S Ventura Street, Ojai, California. Ojai has also been the scene of several officer involved shootings in the Ojai area. See, Suspect killed in officer-involved shooting in Oak View, KABC7 News, July 5, 2019 and Authorities identify man killed in Oak View after CHP officer shooting where a CHP Officer shot and killed an unarmed 21-year-old man. Ventura County Star, July 9, 2019. In addition, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Sheriffs Danielle Delpit and Brian Dent shot a mentally ill man, Devon Costa, when responding to a welfare check. Devon Costa was unarmed and was accosted by the deputies, and never displayed or had any weapon. As usual, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office found both of those shootings to have been justified, as no one ever got elected to public office by promising to protect the public from the police. See, Ventura County District Attorney’s Office’s Report on the September 7, 2013, Shooting of Devon Costa By Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputy Danielle Delpit and Brian Dent and Shooting by CHP officer in Oak View found justified, Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. Ojai has several criminal street gangs including the Ojai Surenos Locos gang which is allied with the Mexican Mafia, the Meiners Oaks Boys gang and the Oak View Gangsters gang. See, Suspect’s mother testifies in murder trial, Ojai Valley News, Sep 19, 2013. Because of constantly having to deal with these vicious criminal street gang members, many of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Sheriffs patrolling Ojai have adopted a gangster mentality, with their theme being “We’re the baddest gang in town”. When that mentality predominates a police agency, its officers / deputies treat those innocent law-abiding members of the are often treated like the very criminals who the police / deputies are supposed to protect them from. In such conditions, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriffs will for example effect traffic stop on innocent law-abiding citizens for minor traffic violations, and, in the course of those stops, give motorists orders such as to exit their vehicles, submit to pat-downs for weapons, having them sit on the curb of the road, handcuff them (allegedly for their own safety) and place them in the back seat of their patrol cars while the deputies run the innocent law-abiding motorists for wants and warrants. When those innocent law-abiding citizens who are not used to being treated in this manner, and verbally protest or verbally challenge the deputies’ orders and actions, they are not deemed to be in “Contempt of Cop”. See, “The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?“, steeringlaw. Those gangster mentality deputies will now beat or tase or pepper-spray, and falsely arrest and procure the malicious criminal prosecution of those innocent law-abiding citizens, usually 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 not lefty propaganda; this is reality. The only rights that we have in this world are those rights that we can enforce. After all, a right without a real-world practical remedy is no right at all. THE ONLY RIGHTS THAT YOU HAVE IN THIS WORLD ARE THOSE THAT, AS A PRACTICAL MATTER IN THE REAL WORLD, YOU CAN ENFORCE. You can only enforce those rights by first winning your bogus “resistance offense” criminal case brought against you for verbally protesting police orders or actions. Thereafter, you have to convince a federal court jury to unanimously vote for you and to condemn the police in a civil case in federal court. It doesn’t matter what the law states, or what the jury instructions say, or what the Judge says, or even what the evidence shows, if a federal jury of mostly white, cop-loving jurors are not going to unanimously vote for you and condemn the police. A right without a remedy is no right at all. 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. If you mouth-off to the cops or don’t do what the police tell you to do, one or more of the jurors in your case are just not going to vote for you. If you cuss out the cops, or act like a jerk, you are not going to win your civil rights case. That is the reality in which we all live. 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
