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 City of Westlake Village, 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 WESTLAKE VILLAGE ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.

Westlake Village is a city in Los Angeles County, California, on its western border with Ventura County. Westlake Village has an estimated population of 8,000 residents.

Police services are provided to Westlake Village residents through a contract with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The Sheriff’s Department deputies who patrol the streets of Westlake Village deploy out of the Sheriff’s Department station located at 27050 Agoura Rd., Agoura, California.

Demographically, Westlake Village is one of the Whitest cities in Los Angeles County. It is 79.51% White, 11.28% Two or more races, 5.8% Asian, 3.21% Other race and 0.2% Black or African American.

50 Years of Deputy Gangs in LASD
50 Years of Deputy Gangs in LASD

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is a police agency that has been out of control for over 50 years. That agency is riddled with deputy sheriffs gangs at various Sheriff’s Department stations.

Much of this deputy gang problem has arisen over the years in response to the rise and proliferation of Hispanic and Black criminal street gangs in Los Angeles County. This may sound somewhat racist, but the truth is that there are no White criminal street gangs that are territorial type criminal street gangs, that really do shoot and kill rival gang members for merely being in their neighborhood; their “turf”. There are criminal White prison gangs, such as PEN1 (Public Enemy Number 1) and the Aryan Brotherhood, and the Hell’s Angeles, the Vagos, the Mongols and other “motorcycle clubs”. However, those criminal gangs do not claim geographical areas of Los Angeles County and shoot other gang members merely for intruding on their “turf”.

In Westlake Village, there are very few criminal street gangs, if any. The demographics don’t support that type of activity. Westlake Village has a crime rate that is considered average, with a total crime rate of 22.3 per 1,000 residents. This includes a violent crime rate of 0.48 and a property crime rate of 21.85.

Because the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department has been basically run by criminal gangs of deputy sheriffs for well over 50 years now, when those deputies patrol low crime areas like Westlake Village, much of the crimes committed there are by the deputy sheriffs patrolling that mostly White city. Not “crimes” in the sense of robbing liquor stores or street muggings of civilians for their wallets or purses, but “crimes” in the sense of California state law crimes such as the use of excessive force by the police (Cal. Penal Code § 149) and false imprisonment (Cal. Penal Code § 236), as well as federal felonies such as violation of federal constitutional rights under color of authority (18 U.S.C. § 242; i.e. for false arrests and excessive force, malicious criminal prosecutions and other federal constitutional violations).

The San Diego County Sheriff's Department Routinely Arrests Innocents in their Drunk in Public Sweeps

These situations arise in “Contempt of Cop” situations; verbal protest or verbal challenge to police orders or actions. See, The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?, steeringlaw.com.

Verbal protest or verbal challenge to police orders or actions has long been held to be a fundamentally tenet of a free society. As Justice Brennan explained in 1987 in striking down a City of Houston, Texas Municipal Ordinance that criminalized interrupting police officers in the performance of their duties:

“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), 482 U.S. 451 (1987), Brennan, J.

Nonetheless, many police officers view verbal protest or verbal challenge to police orders or actions as an invitation to beat or tase or pepper-spray, and falsely arrest and maliciously prosecute those civilians who have done nothing more than exercising their constitutional rights for some imaginary “resistance offense” 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 already know this.

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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