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 Spring Valley neighborhood of San Diego County, throughout 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 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.
Spring Valley is a neighborhood in the East County region of San Diego County, California. The population of Spring Valley is approximately 33,000 residents.
The demographics of Spring Valley are Hispanic 41%, White 37%, African American 11%, Asian 5%, Two or more races 5%, Other race. 1%, Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.
Spring Valley has a crime rate of approximately 27.37 per 1,000 residents, which is slightly higher than the average U.S. city, earning a “C” grade for safety. Residents’ chances of being a crime victim vary by area, ranging from 1 in 26 in northwest neighborhoods to 1 in 46 in the south.
STREET GANG ACTIVITY IN SPRING VALLEY AS RESULTED IN DRACONIAN ACTIONS BY THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
Street gang activity in Spring Valley, CA, involves both local neighborhood cliques and broader regional syndicates. Law enforcement data points to persistent issues with firearm trafficking, unlicensed dispensaries, and narcotics sales, often operated by gang members or associates.
Documented gang members have been involved in violent disputes over territory, vandalism, and public gatherings. Notable incidents include a fatal July 4th shooting on Central Avenue and a daytime shooting involving rival gang members on Grand Avenue.
Spring Valley has historically served as a focal point and transit hub for federal and regional investigations targeting organized crime syndicates.
In response to this violent criminal street gang activity, the San Diego Sheriff’s Office has created gang suppression units and has increased patrols targeting criminal street gangs. San Diego Sheriff’s Office Investigators have also disrupted rings in which Los Angeles and San Diego-area gang members targeted, extorted, and violently intimidated illegal marijuana dispensaries in Spring Valley.
The East County Gang Street Team is a Multi-agency task force that includes the ECGST and federal Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) consistently conducting warrants and operations across East County to dismantle gang-run drug and gun networks.
Due San Diego Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriffs having to deal with substantial criminal street gang activity, those deputy sheriffs from that agency often have difficultly differentiating between street gang members and basically law-abiding civilians.
When that happens and the deputies act inexplicably aggressively toward those basically law-abiding civilians, the civilians often verbally protest or verbally challenge those San Diego Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriffs. Those same unreasonably aggressive deputy sheriffs then often deem those basically law-abiding civilians as now being in “Contempt of Cop”. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?.
Once a civilian is seen as being in “Contempt of Cop” these deputies often beat or tase or pepper-spray, and falsely arrest and procure the malicious criminal prosecution of those lawfully protesting law-abiding civilians for various 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).
Convictions of any of these “resistance offenses” usually preclude the accused of thereafter suing the police, because to be convicted of any of these resistance offenses, the alleged “victim” officers must have been lawfully engaged in the performance of their duties. Ergo, if one is convicted for any of these “resistance offenses”, there has been a judicial determination that the alleged “victim” police officer was not unlawfully detaining or arresting the accused, or was using excessive force upon the accused, or was otherwise acting unlawfully. See, Can You Plead Out and Still Sue the Police?.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ONLY EXIST IF YOU CAN ENFORCE THEM.
Your Only Remedy to Enforce Your Constitutional Rights is Winning a Civil Rights Lawsuit in Federal Court Against the Police.
In the real world, with real judges and real jurors, the only rights that you have in this country are those rights that you can enforce. A right that, as a practical matter in the real world with real jurors, cannot be enforced, is no right at all. Accordingly, if your lawyer cannot convince a jury in Federal Court in San Diego County to vote for you and to condemn the police, you have no Constitutional Rights, because you have no enforcement mechanism for enforcing those rights. This is no easy task.
San Diego County juries tend to vote for the police and against Civil Rights plaintiffs, unless the plaintiffs have overwhelming evidence, and, the jurors just don’t like the defendant police officers / deputy sheriffs. Jurors in San Diego County are in large part military personnel and their relatives, who identify with and love the police. Moreover, in Federal Court, the Judge does most of the jury questioning (“voir dire” – Fed. Rule Civil Proc. 47). If any of the prospective jurors indicate that they have had a bad experience with the police or have seen police outrages, they are typically “excused for cause” by the Judge, or kept off of the jury panel by the lawyers representing the defendant police officers via their “peremptory jury challenges” – 28 U.S.C. § 1870.
Accordingly, at the end of the day, the only people who ultimately get to sit as jurors and in judgment in your Police Misconduct Civil Rights trial in federal court, are mostly white, mostly conservative and mostly cop-loving jurors, who believe that police officers are basically honest men and women with a tough job, with a few bad apples.
Therefore, it is an incredible feat in San Diego County for your lawyer to be able to convince such mostly white, mostly conservative and mostly cop-loving jurors, to unanimously vote for you and to condemn the defendant police officers at your Police Misconduct Civil Rights trial. It doesn’t matter what the law says or what the Judge says or what the jury instructions say, or even what the evidence shows, if the mostly white, mostly conservative and mostly cop-loving jurors will not unanimously vote for you and condemn the police at your trial. All that does matter is whether the jury unanimously votes for you. If you cannot accomplish that, then you have no rights, because you have no way to enforce them.
Jerry L. Steering’s Knowledge of the “Legal Landscape” Maximizes Your Chances of Enforcing Your Constitutional Rights By Winning Your Civil Rights Lawsuit Against the Police in Federal Court in San Diego.
Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984. He has been a Member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court since 1987. Mr. Steering’s many years of experience is what you need to enforce your constitutional rights; to win your case in the hostile world of federal court in San Diego County. There is no substitute for experience, and no substitute for your lawyer knowing the legal landscape. As the saying goes: “The Young Lawyer Knows the Law, But the Old Lawyer Knows the Judge”.
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