JLS in Courtroom cropped 2Police 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 Temple City, throughout Los Angeles 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 TEMPLE CITY ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.

Temple City is a city in Los Angeles County, California located northeast of downtown Los Angeles and at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. Temple City contracts with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for its police services, that deploys out of the Temple Sheriff’s Station, located at 8838 Las Tunas Drive, Temple City, California. The total population of Temple City is 36,591 people. Only 16.2% of residents are Hispanic, 35.7% of residents are White, 55.7% are Asian, and .5% are Black or African American. 

LASD SET Team SWAT 2The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had its share of its Officer Involved Shootings in the Temple City area. See, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department February 27, 2025 shooting of mentally ill woman (in her home refusing to drop meat cleaver), Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Officer Involved Shooting List. See also, October 19, 2021 Officer Involved Shooting of man in Temple City who was initially wrongfully suspected of having a warrant for his arrest for murder, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Officer Involved Shooting List; Arson suspect struck, killed by police gunfire in Rosemead (LASD deputies with the Temple Sheriff’s Station serving a warrant for an arson situation shoot woman barricaded in home) FOX 11 News,  February 27, 2025; See also, Officer Involved Shooting of Andrew Lane (Temple Station deputies shot and killed Andrew Lane at the Temple City Station who went there to register as a Sex Offender) Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, March 22, 2018.

Watts mexican gang photo 3Temple City is also rife with criminal street gangs. See, Sheriff’s Asian Gang squad arrests 7, seizes 200 marijuana plants in Temple City, Los Angeles Daily News, August 28, 2017; Wah Ching members arrested following ecstasy bust in Temple City, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, August 30, 2017; Temple City Woman Rescued After Being Kidnapped, Held At Gunpoint (22-year-old Temple City woman was rescued after being kidnapped and held at gunpoint by a 38-year-old female gang member) KCAL News, December 3, 2010; Mexican Mafia’s roots run deep in San Gabriel Valley, The Whittier Daily News,  August 30, 2017.

Unfortunately, criminal street gangs are not the only gangs in Temple City. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is also rife with its own deputy gangs, including those at the Tempe City Station. See, A Must See Doc On Decades Of Gang Violence: L.A. SHERIFF’S DEPUTY GANGS Are Terrorizing The City Of
Angels, CVLT Nation, April 1, 2025 (the Tasmanian Devils are the Deputy Gang at the Temple City Station); Gangs? Cliques? Subgroups? Call Them What You Will — There’ve Been 18 (Yes, 18) In The LA Sheriff’s Department, LAist, Jan 20, 2021.

See also, “Fifty Years of ‘Deputy Gangs’ in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department: Identifying Root Causes and Effects to Advocate for Meaningful Reforms,” Loyola Marymount School of Law; Civilian Oversight Panel Adopts Recommendations to Eradicate Deputy Gangs, Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, March 3, 2023; Deputy Gangs: Support for the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission’s Recommendations to Eradicate Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, March 7, 2023; Report And Recommendations Of The Special Counsel To Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission Regarding Deputy Gangs And Deputy Cliques In The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, February 2023; See also, Deputy gangs a ‘cancer’ within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, scathing report says The 70-page report by the Civilian Oversight Commission’s special counsel accused the department of harboring secretive groups that must be immediately “excised”, NBC News, March 3, 2023.

In 2021 the California legislature banned police gangs at police agencies in California with the enactment of Cal. Pen. Code § 13670, that provided that all California police agencies ban officer gangs within their department.

Unfortunately, as no one ever got elected in this Country by promising to protect the public from the police, notwithstanding successive Los Angeles County Sheriffs promising to eradicate the deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, nothing has happened to do so. See, Inspector general blasts LA County sheriff’s new policy on deputy gangs, LAist, Sep 24, 2024; LA’s Sheriff Says He’s Banned Deputy Gangs. After My Son’s Death, How Can We Trust Him?, The Appeal, October 23, 2024; Sheriff’s Department flouts county request for info on alleged deputy gang, report says, Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2024; Sheriff Alex Villanueva is Obstructing Attempts to Eradicate Deputy Gangs from the LASD, Loyola Marymount School of Law, April 21, 2022.

LASD Sheriff Robert Luna 2Not all Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs are gang members. However, this gang mindset in that agency often results in Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs treating innocent law abiding civilians like criminals.

For example, during routine traffic stops of civilians for minor traffic violations, something that we are all guilty of, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs will often order motorists to exit their vehicles, be subjected to a search of their persons and vehicles, being proned-out on the street, and being handcuffed and made to sit on the curb. This happens to innocent every day in Los Angeles County.

When such draconian traffic stops happen, basically innocent law-abiding civilians often verbally protest or verbally challenge such unreasonable police orders and actions.

When that happens, the basically innocent law-abiding civilians are now deemed to be in “Contempt of Cop”. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw.

When that happens, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs will then beat or tase or pepper-spray, and falsely arrest and maliciously prosecute those innocents for “resistance offenses” 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 weapon).

IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU ACTUALLY ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS BY WINNING YOUR CASE.

Screen Capture from LA ABC 7 Interview of JLS on Jovan Jimenez caseThe 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.

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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