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 Luis Obispo, throughout San Luis Obispo 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’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. A right without a real-world remedy (i.e. winning your case) is no right at all; at least for you. It doesn’t matter what the law states, or what the Judge says, or what the jury instructions say, or even what the evidence shows, if a jury of 8 cop-loving jurors is not going to unanimously vote for you in your federal court Police Misconduct Civil Rights case. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge” and Mr. Steering’s understanding the technical and practical legal landscape of Police Misconduct Civil Rights cases will dramatically increase your chances of winning your case; of actually enforcing your constitutional rights. THE POLICE IN SAN LUIS OBISPO ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. San Luis Obispo is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California with an estimated population of 47,000. Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway between the San Francisco Bay Area in the north and Greater Los Angeles in the south. The demographics of the City of San Luis Obispo is 52.02% White, 37.69% Hispanic, 1.96% Black, 5.14% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.25% American Indian, 2.54% Multirace and 0.34% Other. The City of San Luis Obispo has its own police department, located at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California. Criminal street gangs have existed in San Luis Obispo County since the 1960s.The county has been historically populated by Sureño-related gangs, an umbrella term that describes loosely affiliated members who trace their origins to Southern California, according to a March report on transnational gangs published by the California Department of Justice. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office Established The Gang Task Force (GTF) (there are 631 documented gang members in San Luis Obispo County and 50 documented criminal street gangs) issuu.com, 2021 Annual Report; Three SLO County gang members sentenced to prison, Cal Coast News, April 21, 2022 (A San Luis Obispo judge sentenced three gang members for the 2019 murder of a South County man who was once a member of their gang); SLO County Sheriff’s Office talks gangs after recent shoot-out, New Times San Luis Obispo, News, October 01, 2020; Three sentenced for gang-related murder, Paso Robles Dailynews.com, April 21, 2022. Because San Luis Obispo police have to constantly deal with local criminal street gang members, some of them become very jaded; so jaded that they treat innocent law-abiding civilian like criminal street gangsters. When that happens, the innocent law-abiding civilians often verbally object or protest or challenge police orders to them that appear to be draconian and overreaching, such as ordering motorists stopped for minor traffic infractions to exit their vehicles, or be subjected to a search of their persons or vehicles, or being ordered to prone-out themselves on the ground, or to sit on the curb. Verbally objecting to or verbally protesting or challenging police orders has long been held by the U.S. Supreme Court to be constitutionally protected conduct. For example, in striking down a City of Houston, Texas Municipal Ordinance that criminalized “interrupting” a police officer in the performance of his/her duties, Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan held: “The Houston ordinance is much more sweeping than the municipal ordinance struck down in Lewis. It is not limited to fighting words nor even to obscene or opprobrious language, but prohibits speech that “in any manner . . . interrupt[s]” an officer. The Constitution does not allow such speech to be made a crime. The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.” City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451 (1987). So, when these innocent law-abiding civilians often verbally object or protest or challenge police orders to them, they are not deemed to be in “Contempt of Cop“. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw. When that then happens, San Luis Obispo police officers will often beat or tase or pepper-spray, and falsely arrest and maliciously prosecute those innocents for fabricated “resistance offenses” such as violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing an 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). If you are reading this webpage, you probably agree with the analysis shown above. 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. 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. 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
