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 Rancho Bernardo neighborhood of San Diego 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 SAN DIEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT PATROLS THE STREETS OF RANCHO BERNARDO.
The San Diego Police Department has a long history of being “trigger happy”, and of shooting civilians under unjustified circumstances. See, for example shooting video “Southeastern Division – 1-22-26 – Full critical incident breakdown” (San Diego Police Department shooting unarmed man on the ground who starts stepping forward from his position on street); See also, “Mid-City Division 09-23-2025Z” (man shot when tossing gun per SDPD Officer’s Orders to do so) and “Western Division 05-31-2025” (obviously mentally ill man who claimed that he wanted to die shot be SDPD officers when approached officers holding knife), and “Northern Division 05-08-25” (SDPD Officer crowd man holding hatchet and shoot him when they crowd him).
The list of San Diego Police Department shootings goes on and on. See, San Diego Police Department compilation of “Critical Incident Videos“. They all have a common theme. Rather than at least attempting to deploy less than lethal options to restrain or control the suspect, the San Diego Police Department Officers all resorted to use lethal force as a first resort. This is shameful. However, virtually none of these San Diego Police Department officers were ever criminally prosecuted; none. After all, no one ever got elected to office in this country by promising to protect the public from the police.
MOST OF THE INCIDENTS BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE POLICE IN RANCHO BERNARDO ARISE IN THE CONTEXT OF “CONTEMPT OF COP” INCIDENTS.
Police Officers rarely beat-up civilians and false arrest them for some sort of “resistance offense” without some provocation. Often that “provocation” is nothing more than verbal protest or verbal challenge to police orders or actions; especially police orders or actions that appear unreasonable to the civilian, such as ordering motorists to exit their vehicles and to prone-out on the street during traffic stops. The police take no chances these days, and the norm in the police profession is to use over-the-top excessive methods of restraint or detention to minimize any chance at all that the officer will be injured. As the continued use of these over-the-top excessive methods of restraint or detention become more frequent, they become the new norm. The police believe that they are “reasonable”, but a motorist who has committed nothing more than a de minimis traffic violation usually do not see their being accosted at gunpoint, and proned-out on the street and handcuffed as reasonable at all.
Thereafter, when the offended motorist or pedestrian verbally protests their seizures by the police, the offices now deem them to be in “Contempt of Cop”. See, “The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?“.
When that happens, the police will often beat or tase or pepper-spray, or use more excessive force, and thereafter falsely arrest and maliciously prosecute the innocent civilian for some fabricated “resistance offense” such as 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 reading this article, this very well may have happened to you.
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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