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 Whittier, 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 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 WHITTIER POLICE DEPARTMENT IS OFTEN A BRUTAL AGENCY AND IS INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. Whittier is a City of approximately 85,000 residents, located 12 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The Whittier Police Department has been in service since 1955, when the Department had 20 police officers. Since then, many expansions took place to accommodate the growth of the City and the Department. The Whittier Police Department provides law enforcement services to the citizens of Whittier and Santa Fe Springs. The City of Whittier is composed of approximately slightly less than 2/3 Hispanic residents, approximately slightly less than 1/3 White residents, with less than 5% Asians and approximately 1% African-Americans. In Los Angeles County with its population of 10.5 million residents, there are approximately 200,000 street gang members, almost none of which are white. There are white criminal gangs, but most of them are prison gangs and their contacts outside of prison. Accordingly, like other areas of Los Angeles County, where there are a heavy concentration of Hispanic residents, Hispanic criminal street gangs often make the streets of the City dangerous indeed. These Hispanic criminal street gangs include: Brown Brother Hood, Canta Ranas, Eastside Cole Street, Jim Town, Los Nietos, Jokerstown, Quiet Village, Varrio Whittier, South Side Whittier, Vicky Town, Whittier Dead End Locos, Whittier Varrio Locos, Whittier Village and Whittier Huslters. As one might imagine, the Whittier Police Department in engaged in a never-ending battle with these criminal street gangs for control of the streets of Whittier. That is not in itself the problem with misconduct with Whittier Police Department police officers. The problem with misconduct by Whittier Police Department police officers is that in their efforts to control the City’s street gang problem, the police themselves have adopted a street gangster mentality; that the Whittier Police are “The badest gang in town”. Whittier Police Department police officers have in substantial part become street gangsters with badges, and the politicians always back the police right or wrong. This happens because in the real world, no one ever got elected to political office in this country by promising to protect the public from the police; just ask recently former Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon who tried to protect the public from the police, and lost his reelection bid by more than two-thirds of the voters voting against him. Because the Whittier Police have in large part become their own form of street gangster, they often treat totally innocent people as criminals. It’s one thing to order a known street gang member to exit their vehicle, handcuff them and seat them on the curb while searching their cars when performing routine traffic stops. It’s a different story when Whittier Police treat innocent people like street gangsters. When that happens, innocent people often verbally protest or verbally challenge being ordered out their cars, being handcuffed and being proned-out on the street or made to sit on the sidewalk. The Whittier Police see such verbal protest and verbal challenge as “Contempt of Cop” situations. When the innocent law-abiding citizens are then deemed to be in Contempt of Cop, they are often then beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed, and then falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for some fabricated “resistance offense”, 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). Sometimes these “Contempt of Cop” situations degenerate into shootings. See, 2 Whittier Police Detectives Charged With Assault for 2020 On-Duty Shooting That Left Unarmed Man Paralyzed, Los Angeles County Media Relations, April 12, 2023. See also, Whittier to pay $1 million to settle police shooting case, Whittier Daily News, August 27, 2020, Family blames Whittier police for mentally ill man’s death, KPCC News, August 29, 2017. 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
