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 City of San Fernando, throughout Los Angeles 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.
THE POLICE IN SAN FERNANDO ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
The City of San Fernando is located in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California. It was established as a City in 1911, and its police department is thought to have been created contemporaneously with the creation of that City as a public entity in 1911.
The San Fernando Police Department has 35 sworn full-time police officers, and approximately 20 Reserve Police Officers who can assist those regularly employed full-time sworn police officers in time of emergency.
The City of San Fernando has an estimated population of 24,000 residents, approximately 90% of whom are Hispanic, and with Non-Hispanic White (4.2%), Asian (2.3%) and Black or African American (0.8%) making up the remainder of the residents of that city.
The San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County has at least 57 recognized criminal street gangs. See, streetgangs.com. Although 90% of the population of the City of San Fernando is Hispanic, there are not just Hispanic street gangs in San Fernando.
There are White-Supremacist Gangs, exemplified by the SFV Peckerwoods. In October 2024, federal authorities indicted 68 members and associates of the San Fernando Valley Peckerwoods, a white supremacist gang. They were implicated in a long-running racketeering enterprise involving fentanyl distribution, weapons crimes, COVID-19 relief fraud, bank fraud, and identity theft. See, 68 Defendants Charged in Indictment of Dozens of Members and Associates of San Fernando Valley White Supremacist Gang, U.S. Department of Justice, October 2, 2024.
There are also Armenian gangs in San Fernando. In 2025, over a dozen Armenians were arrested in the San Fernando Valley following escalating gang warfare over control of illicit operations. See, LA Times Today: Armenian gang war roils San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2025.
There are also quite a few Hispanic criminal street gangs in San Fernando, including the Vineland Boys (Vineland Boyz) gang, that operates in the San Fernando Valley and is involved in drug trafficking, extortion, and violent crimes. The Vineland Boys was founded in North Hollywood in 1988 by former 18th Street gang members who joined the Sureño coalition under Mexican Mafia control. See, Lead Defendant in Indictment Targeting Vineland Boys Street Gang in San Fernando Valley Sentenced to 16 Years in Federal Prison, U.S. Department of Justice, December 11, 2023.
Hispanic criminal street gangs in San Fernando also include the Project Boys / Pacoima Flats Alliance, a violent Hispanic gang operating within the San Fernando Valley housing projects. They also included the Varrio San Fers (VSF13 / San Fer Gang) gang. It is one of the oldest Hispanic criminal street gangs in San Fernando with an estimated membership of over 500 gangsters.
“WE’RE THE BADDEST GANG IN TOWN”.
Because the San Fernando Police Department has to deal with these various criminal street gangs on a daily basis, many of their ranks adopt the mentality of “We’re the baddest gang in town”; something that causes the police to violate and flaunt the very laws that they claim to be enforcing.
This “baddest gang in town” attitude also causes San Fernando Police Department officers to often treat basically law-abiding good citizen types like street criminals. When that happens, the basically law-abiding good citizen types are taken-aback by such police orders and actions, and often verbally protest or verbally challenge this type of treatment. When that happens, the basically law-abiding good citizen types are now deemed in “Contempt of Cop”. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw.com.
When that happens, the basically law-abiding good citizen types often end up getting beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed or even shot, and then falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for “resistance offenses” 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).
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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