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 Ventura 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 POLICE IN VENTURA COUNTY ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May of 2020, many states, including California, “passed transparency laws” that require law enforcement agencies to make public records of the use of excessive force and records of sustained complaints of dishonesty by police agencies. California’s police transparency law is Cal. Pen. Code § 832.7(b) that makes the following categories of police records public records that any member of the public can obtain upon request to a police agency: (i) An incident involving the discharge of a firearm at a person by a peace officer or custodial officer. (ii) An incident involving the use of force against a person by a peace officer or custodial officer that resulted in death or in great bodily injury. (iii) A sustained finding involving a complaint that alleges unreasonable or excessive force. (iv) A sustained finding that an officer failed to intervene against another officer using force that is clearly unreasonable or excessive. (B)(i) Any record relating to an incident in which a sustained finding was made by any law enforcement agency or oversight agency that a peace officer or custodial officer engaged in sexual assault involving a member of the public. Notwithstanding these clear entitlements to police records of misconduct, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office refused to abide by the clear language of Cal. Pen. Code § 832.7(b) and had to be sued in court to comply with Section 832.7(b). See, Ventura sheriff sued over alleged violations of records laws, Associated Press, April 1, 2021. It is not coincidental that the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department did not want their dirty laundry made public. When the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office finally disclosed its Use of Force incidents and Officer Involved Shootings, it showed 4,297 incidents of Use of Force and 62 Officer Involved Shootings by that agency. See, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Transparency Dashboard for Use of Force. Most law-abiding citizens believe that the police are basically mostly decent and honest people with a difficult and dangerous job, with a few bad-apple cops. That is true to some extent. However, virtually none of these decent and honest people with a difficult and dangerous job will implicate their fellow officer. If they do, one way or another, they will be forced out of their respective police agency. Accordingly, in the real world, none of them are honest, and none of them will tell the truth about their fellow officer using excessive force or falsely arresting you or yours. If you are reading this webpage, you probably now understand that proposition. Moreover, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office will always find language to justify beatings or shootings or even false arrests by Ventura County Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriffs no matter how unjustifiable or outrageous those actions by those deputy sheriffs may have been. See, for example: Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Report on the October 4, 2020, shooting of Austin Manzano by Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputies Robert Medina and Gregory Tougas. Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Report on the October 10, 2018, shooting of Michael Johnson by Ventura County Sheriff’s Sergeant Russell King and Deputy Justyn Czyrklis. Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Report on the December 16, 2015, shooting of Bryant Duncan by Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputy Leon Mah Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Report on the September 7, 2013, Shooting of Devon Costa By Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputy Danielle Delpit Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Report on the July 12, 2013, Shooting of Daniel Houfek by Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputies Danielle Delpit and Brian Dent. Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Report on the January 30, 2013, Shooting of Josue Jimenez by Deputy James Tedder of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office. Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Report on the Fatal Shooting of Eric Strosser by Ventura County Sheriff’s Senior Deputy Kevin Lynch on January 27, 2012 Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Report on the Fatal Shooting of Adrian Canley by Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputy Shane Matthews on November 14, 2006 Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Report on the Fatal Shooting of Scott Osler by Ventura County Sheriff Deputies Dave Sparks and Victor Medina on July 26, 2005 Moreover, many of these Ventura County Sheriff’s Office deputy sheriffs have adopted the mentality of them being the “Baddest Gang In Town”, to combat the many criminal street gangs that riddle Ventura County, such as the Oxnard-based Surtown Chiques gangg, the Colonia Chiques gang, the Southside Chiques gang, the El Rio Trouble Street gang, the Eastside Saticoy gang, the Cabrillo Village, Campo gang, the Eastside Montalvo gang, the Midtown, VMT gang, the Pierpont Gang and the Ventura Avenue Gangsters gang. Some of these Ventura County Sheriff’s Office deputies treat law abiding citizens like gang members. When the law-abiding citizens then object to being treated like gang members and verbally protest or verbally challenge those abusive deputies’ orders those law-abiding citizens are now deemed to be in “Contempt of Cop”. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play? steeringlaw. It is in these “Contempt of Cop” situations that law abiding citizens end up getting beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed, and falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted 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 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 the weapon). If you are reading this webpage, you probably also now understand that proposition. IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. 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
