RANCHO CUCAMONGA & CHINO POLICE MISCONDUCT ATTORNEY Jerry L. Steering is a Rancho Cucamonga & Chino Police Brutality Attorney who sues police officers and deputy sheriffs, for, among other things, “police brutality” (“unreasonable force”), false arrests and their accompanying malicious criminal prosecutions, and wrongful police caused deaths, such as by shooting and smotherings. Mr. Steering is an expert and specialist in suing the police and has been suing state and local police officers since 1984. Mr. Steering law practice involves serving, among other places in California, the cities of Rancho Cucamonga and Chino. Although Rancho Cucamonga and Chino have traditionally been upscale residential areas with nice neighborhoods, those cities nonetheless have been a “hot spot” for outrageous police misconduct. Most people in Rancho Cucamonga and Chino have a world view that the persons entrusted with protecting them, for those cities the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, are basically honest cops with a difficult and dangerous job, with a few bad apples. That is the life experience of most people who don’t live in ghetto areas. The problem with this world view, is that is does not reflect reality. People tend to believe what makes them feel good, and it doesn’t make them feel good to believe that the people entrusted with protecting them are more often than not, more dangerous from the people who they are being protected from. No police officers rat-out their pals; none. If they do, they may as well resign because they are going to be driven to do so by his/her fellow officers. They will be ostracized by their fellow officers. They will find a piece of cheese left at their locker (i.e. cheese for rats), or will not be backed-up by their fellow officers on a dangerous call, or even have their bullets surreptitiously taken out of their AR-15 patrol rifle. That is the real world. No one believes that a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is going to order a person out of their car, slam them on the ground, tase them, knee drop them or worse unless that person really deserved such treatment. Again, that is an unrealistic belief system. They will, however, believe such things when it happens to them or theirs. See, “The “Contempt of Cop Game”; How Well Can You Play?” When a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is having a bad day and takes it out on an actually innocent member of the public, say during a traffic stop or when people complain about their noisy neighbors, or when a husband or wife wants to gain an advantage in a divorce or child custody case and calls the cops on the other, and the civilian protests his/her treatment by the police or dares to tell the deputy that he/she knows his/her rights, a “contempt of cop” situation arises. When that happens, things tend to snowball, and the deputy will show the contemptuous civilian that they really have no rights, and beat them and falsely arrest them. That is reality. If that wasn’t reality, you probably would not be reading this webpage. Although Rancho Cucamonga is not nearly as heavily populated as other areas in Southern California, the “crime rate” of crimes and Constitutional Torts committed by the Sheriff’s Department is astounding. It seems that the Victor Valley is the hotbed for “cops gone wild.” That, unfortunately, is also a reality. FREE CASE EVALUATION San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies in Rancho Cucamonga and in Chino and in the High Desert are simply out of control, and nobody is going to do anything about; at least anybody from the Sheriff’s Department, or the Judges of the Victorville Court. These deputies “up the hill” have even been caught by a News Helicopter, beating-up a man who tried to elude them on horseback. The deputies knew that there was a Sheriff’s Department helicopter above, them, and knew that those pilots and crew would never “rat them out”. So, the beat the man who was trying to surrender to them after he had been tased. See, “Sheriff Orders Immediate Internal Investigation Into Arrest Seen on “Disturbing” Video”. MR. STEERING TRACK RECORD IN SUING THE POLICE IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Mr. Steering is an expert in suing the police for police brutality / excessive force, police shootings and other police cause wrongful deaths, false arrests and malicious criminal prosecutions. Mr. Steering has successfully sued San Bernardino County police agencies successfully, for many years now. Here are a few examples of cases that Mr. Steering has won against the Sheriff Department; an agency that has literally gone off of the deep end in the High Desert / Victor Valley area: Morgan v. County of San Bernardino, U.S. Dist. Court, Cent. Dist. of Cal. (Riverside) (1996), $714,000.00 settlement following jury verdict for excessive force and false arrest during search warrant execution in Apple Valley, California; Austin v. County of San Bernardino, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, $500,000.00 jury verdict for false arrest and excessive force; Lopez v. County of San Bernardino, U.S. Dist. Court Cent. Dist. of Cal. (Riverside) (2002), $50,000.00 settlement for racially motivated battery; Miller v. City of San Bernardino, et al, U.S. Dist. Court Cent. Dist. of Cal. (Riverside) (2003), $35,000.00 settlement for unlawful detention; Calderon v. County of San Bernardino, U.S. Dist. Court, Central Dist. of Cal. (Riverside)(2003), $115,000.00 settlement for false arrest and illegal search; Arroyo v. City of San Bernardino, U.S. Dist. Court, Central Dist. of Cal. (Riverside)(2004), $125,000.00 settlement for unreasonable seizure of person; Ford v. County of San Bernardino, (2007), $80,000.00 settlement for excessive force; In re Jane Doe v. County of San Bernardino, et al., (2008), $290,000.00 settlement (prior to filing lawsuit) for sexually motivated mistreatment of arrestee; Aubry v. County of San Bernardino, et. al, U.S. Dist. Court (LA) 2012, $325,000.00 settlement for the use of unreasonable force and for false arrest; and Jones v. County of San Bernardino, et al.; $170,000.00 U.S. Dist. Court (LA) settlement for unreasonable seizure of person. Penny Trent v. County of San Bernardino, et al., $600,000.00 settlement for unreasonable seizure of person. If you are the victim of a false arrest or excessive force or a malicious criminal prosecution, or if a loved one has been shot and/or killed by the police in Rancho Cucamonga * Chino area, Jerry L. Steering can help you. Call Jerry L. Steering at (949) 474-1849 or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com
