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 San Bernardino, 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 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 CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO IS A HOTBED FOR POLICE MISCONDUCT The San Bernardino Police Department is a particularly brutal police agency. There are plenty of street gangs in the City of San Bernardino. The San Bernardino Police have their hands full with dealing with those gangs. Unfortunately, at a certain point, San Bernardino Police Department police officers treat everyone like criminals; like street gangsters. They routinely provoke innocents, to verbal criticize or question their aggressive conduct, and when they do, the “cowboy warriors” do their thing; beating-up and falsely arresting, and ultimately maliciously prosecute those totally innocent persons. This is neither a joke or some sort of lefty propaganda. This is the cold reality of life on the streets of the City of San Bernardino. The City of San Bernardino is the hotbed for “cops gone wild.” These San Bernardino Police Officers are simply out of control, and nobody is going to do anything about; at least anybody from the San Bernardino Police Department, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office or the Judges of the San Bernardino County Superior Court. SAMPLES OF MR. STEERING’S SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY POLICE MISCONDUCT CASES: Here are a few examples of cases that Mr. Steering has won against the Sheriff Department; an agency that has literally gone off of the deep end in the High Desert / Victor Valley area: Here are a few examples of cases that Mr. Steering has won against the San Bernardino Police Department. Jamie Johnson v. City of San Bernardino; U.S. District Court (Riverside 2007); $70,000.00 for use of excessive force against jail inmate. In Re M.P.A. v. City of San Bernardino, U.S. District Court (Riverside 2002); $150,000.00 for use of excessive force (sexual assault) against female Thomas Perez, Jr. v. City of Fontana: In 2024 Mr. Steering obtained $900,000.00 from the City of Fontana for Fontana Police Using “Psychological Torture“; for a coerced confession of an innocent man. See, Fontana Police “Psychologically Tortured” Man to Falsely Confess to Killing His Father. See, CBS News Coverage of case in Fontana pays $900,000 settlement after police interrogate man for 17 hours, CBS News on KCBS. See also Mr. Steering on CNN on the Thomas Perez v. City of Fontana case at Police pressured him to confess to a murder that never happened, CNN September 6, 2024. The Fontana Police Detectives learned “psychological tortured” Thomas Perez, Jr. to the point of literally pulling his hair our and to attempted suicide at the station. Even after the Fontana PD Detectives found out that Thomas Perez, Sr. was alive and well, waiting to board a flight to Oakland, California to see his daughter, rather than tell Thomas Perez, Jr. that they found his father, alive and well, they withheld that information from him, committed him to the mental hospital on a 72-hour suicide hold, and told the hospital staff not to allow his to speak to anyone, causing him to believe for the next three days that his father had been murdered, that he was going to prison for life for the murder and that they were going to euthanize his dog. Tommy Mark Franks, Jr. v. County of San Bernardino, U.S. Dist. Court, Cent. Dist. of Cal. (Santa Ana) (2023), $500,000.00 settlement following $375,000.00 jury verdict on compensatory damages phase on February 1, 2023. An Orange County Federal Court Jury Awarded Tommy Mark Franks, Jr. $375,000.00 for compensatory damages for a five-hour false arrest by San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriff Tyler Loup. Daniel Morgan v. County of San Bernardino, U.S. Dist. Court, Cent. Dist. of Cal. (Riverside) (1996), $714,000.00 settlement following jury verdict for excessive force and false arrest during search warrant execution in Apple Valley, California. Daniel Morgan owned an airplane repair facility and paint store next to the Airport in Apple Valley, California. In Penny Trent v. County of San Bernardino, et al., Mr. Steering obtained a $600,000.00 settlement for unreasonable seizure of her person. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sheriff Carolyn Chadwell and her partner had arrested Penny Trent’s husband for Domestic Violence; for hitting her. After they place Mr. Trent in their patrol car, Deputy Chadwell walked back into the Trent’s home and she couldn’t see Penny Trent’s left hand that was down by her side and shot at Penny. The deputies then arrested Penny, took her to the Sheriff’s Station and interrogated her for 8 hours, in a frenzied attempt to cover for their shooting of Penny. A man who owed him money for auto paint and made-up a story that Dan Morgan was cooking meth at his shop / store. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department thereafter obtained a search warrant for Mr. Morgan’s property and they executed the same at 7:00 a.m. Mr. Morgan, a totally innocent man, was struck in his jaw with a rifle butt by Deputy Sheriff Rodney Fulcher (who later committed suicide), and Deputy Sheriff Mike Fassari kicked Dan Morgan’s leg into pieces while he lay on the ground. Thomas Austin v. County of San Bernardino, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Riverside), $500,000.00 jury verdict for false arrest and excessive force. A San Bernardino County Jury acquitted Mr. Austin of the resisting arrest charge, and a jury awarded him $500,000.00 in his subsequent civil case in federal court in Riverside, California. David Scott v. County of San Bernardino, et al; $400,000.00 settlement after winning case on appeal to the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department School Resource officer arrested three 11-year-old girls, handcuffed them and paraded him out of their Middle School and to the police station, because they were not taking the Deputy Sheriff seriously and he literally said that he wanted to teach them a lesson; no joke. Some of Mr. Steering’s other San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and City Police cases are: Lopez v. County of San Bernardino, U.S. Dist. Court Cent. Dist. of Cal. (Riverside) (2002), $50,000.00 settlement for racially motivated battery; Miller v. City of San Bernardino, et al, U.S. Dist. Court Cent. Dist. of Cal. (Riverside) (2003), $35,000.00 settlement for unlawful detention; Calderon v. County of San Bernardino, U.S. Dist. Court, Central Dist. of Cal. (Riverside)(2003), $115,000.00 settlement for false arrest and illegal search; Arroyo v. City of San Bernardino, U.S. Dist. Court, Central Dist. of Cal. (Riverside)(2004), $125,000.00 settlement for unreasonable seizure of person; Ford v. County of San Bernardino, (2007), $80,000.00 settlement for excessive force; In re Jane Doe v. County of San Bernardino, et al., (2008), $290,000.00 settlement (prior to filing lawsuit) for sexually motivated mistreatment of arrestee; Aubrey v. County of San Bernardino, et. al, U.S. Dist. Court (LA) 2012, $325,000.00 settlement for the use of unreasonable force and for false arrest; and Jones v. County of San Bernardino, et al.; $170,000.00 U.S. Dist. Court (LA) settlement for unreasonable seizure of person. See, WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE FALSELY ARRESTED OR BEATEN BY THE POLICE, if you are the victim of police misconduct. FREE CASE EVALUATION
