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 Rancho Mirage, throughout Riverside 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. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. THE POLICE IN RANCHO MIRAGE ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. The City of Rancho Mirage contracts its police services with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, whose deputies deploy out of the Palm Desert Station located at 73-705 Gerald Ford Drive Palm Desert, California. Although the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has for quite some time had a well-earned reputation for brutality and accompanying false arrests, ever since Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has taken over at the Sheriff’s Department its deputies have basically waged brutal warfare on the public. If the come to a private residence to arrest someone pursuant to an arrest warrant and the person named in the warrant won’t exit the house, they just bulldoze the walls of the house down with its TAC-CAT vehicle until there is no place left to hide. Ever since the George Floyd incident in Minnesota in May of 2020, the State of California has required California police agencies to post its investigations of any police shootings or significant use of force on its website. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has done that, even though the incidents are not listed by names or dates; only by Sheriff’s Department case numbers. See, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department “Transparency” website page. There are always 45 or 50 incident reports shown, if you read the reports you will see that the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department never finds that its deputies acted wrongfully, not matter how wrongful their conduct was. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department also makes sure to do its best to criminally prosecute the victims of deputy beatings, tasings or even shootings, to at least attempt to preclude those civilian victims from successfully suing the deputies and the department for the outrages perpetrated against them. In that regard, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has an actually policy and practice of concealing from the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office highly exculpatory evidence; evidence that is indicative that its was the deputy sheriff who committed the crime, not the civilian who is being accused of 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 officer causing injury) and Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (assault on officer with the weapon). The CAPO (Crimes Against Peace Officers) Unit of the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office is staffed by Deputy District Attorneys who “drank the Cool-Aid” and either actually believe the lying creepy deputy sheriffs who are trying to frame their civilian victims, or just don’t care that the victims are innocent so long as they can improve their conviction statistics and curry favor with the police so sometime in the future they can run for Judge. If a person convicted of any of these “resistance offenses”, he/she is now precluded by the Doctrine of Collateral Estoppel from successfully suing the police for beating them, or falsely detaining or falsely arresting them, or unlawfully searching them or theirs. There are exceptions to this rule. For example, one may be guilty of resisting/delaying/obstructing a officer, Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) by running away from the police who are lawfully detaining or arresting them, and when the police later catch-up to them and beat them with their batons or sic their dogs on them, if the two events can be logically separated in time, one might technically be able to still sue for excessive force. See, Smith v. City of Hemet, 394 F.3d 689 (9th Cir. 2005). However, it is very rare that one will be able to so successfully sue the police in that situation. Moreover, if you are convicted of any crime, even if the police did not have a warrant or probable cause to arrest you, you are still precluded from successfully suing the police for false arrest via the Doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994). IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU. 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
