Police Misconduct Attorney Pomona, CA

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 Dana Point, throughout Orange 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 POMONA ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.

The Pomona Police Department has a long and sordid history for having an Iron Fist mentality for control of the streets of Pomona. See for example, Pomona agrees to $700,000 settlement to resolve lawsuit over police beating (beating innocent in head with police flashlight), Daily Bulletin, January 14, 2019. See also, Pomona officer charged with civil rights violations, 2 others charged in cover-up for 2015 beating of minor, KABC News, October 27, 2017. See also, Teen sues Pomona police, claims department doctored video footage submitted to DA, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, July 1, 2016.

This Iron Fist mentality includes the shooting and killing civilians, often on the flimsiest of excuses for doing so. See, ACLU sues Pomona Police Department over its deadly force policy, Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2020. That lawsuit by the ACLU resulted in the City of Pomona entering into a consent degree in federal court with the ACLU to not kill civilians except when necessary to preserve human life, and after other alternatives to killing persons have been exhausted. See, Consent Decree of 2022.

Much of this Iron Fist mentality of Pomona police officers emanates from those same officers having to deal with the many criminal street gangs in Pomona. See, Pomona Called a ‘Hotbed’ of Gang Activity, Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2004. Some of these Pomona criminal street gangs are Mexican Mafia affiliates. See, 3 Pomona gang members accused of murdering L.A. inmate, Daily Bulletin, October 15, 2021. See also, Federal Racketeering Indictment Targets Mexican Mafia Control of Inmates and Drug Trafficking Inside Los Angeles County Jail System, United States Department of Justice, May 23, 2018.

The only rights that we have in this world are those rights that we can enforce. After all, a right without a real-world practical remedy is no right at all.

You can only enforce those rights by first winning your bogus “resistance offense” criminal case brought against you for verbally protesting police orders or actions.

Thereafter, you have to convince a federal court jury to unanimously vote for you and to condemn the police in a civil case in federal court. It doesn’t matter what the law states, or what the jury instructions say, or what the Judge says, or even what the evidence shows, if a federal jury of mostly white, cop-loving jurors are not going to unanimously vote for you and condemn the police.

The 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.

If you mouth-off to the cops or don’t do what the police tell you to do, one or more of the jurors in your case are just not going to vote for you. If you cuss out the cops, or act like a jerk, you are not going to win your civil rights case.

Accordingly, as the Pomona police tend to treat just about everyone as a potential gang member, member or not, if you are pulled over by a Pomona police officer, shut your mouth, do what they tell you to do, and don’t protest, and you probably will not get beaten or falsely arrested by the Pomona police and you might even win your civil rights case down the road.

Otherwise, you will likely get beaten, falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for some bogus “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).

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 .

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