Police Misconduct Attorney Riverside County CA

Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious prosecution criminal prosecutions and other “Constitutional Torts”, such as First Amendment Retaliation cases. for constitutional violations in the City of Dana Point, throughout Orange County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering in an Expert and Specialist in suing the police in federal court for constitutional violations in Riverside 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.

RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF CHAD BIANCO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY MIKE HESTRIN HAVE TURNED RIVERSIDE COUNTY INTO A QUASI-POLICE STATE.

Riverside County is no longer the land of the free and the brave. It is now a quasi-police state ever since Chad Bianco became Riverside County Sheriff. This is not lefty propaganda. This is the reality. Most law-abiding citizens will not believe this claim, as their experiences with the police have for those people, generally are positive. However, if you are reading this page, chances are that you or a loved one has no undergone a terrible experience with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, and that you are now a believer.

No, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department doesn’t pull-over, beat-up, falsely arrest and, thereafter, malicious prosecute just anyone. Putting aside police pursuit cases, most incidents of police beatings in Riverside County “snowball”; from petty indignities (bruised deputy’s frail ego) to brutal police beatings of innocents.

They usually start by the police ordering civilians to exit their cars, or their homes, or to prone themselves out on the street, or to do something that the civilian verbally objects to; often because they don’t understand what they did to warrant such orders to them, or why the officer is ordering them about.

When the civilian asks “Why?”, or “What did I do?” instead of immediately complying with the officer’s orders to them, in the police world, the innocent citizen is now guilty of “Contempt of Cop“; the trigger for most police beatings in the modern world. Moreover, don’t look to Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to scold his deputies for beating you up and falsely arresting you. Sheriff Bianco and Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin are more than happy to file bogus “resistance offense” criminal cases against you, to protect the police by having you plead yourself out of being able to sue the police. such as bogus cases for violations of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (felony resisting peace officer with force/violence), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (misdemeanor resisting/delaying/obstructing peace officer), Cal. Penal Code § 243(b) (misdemeanor battery on peace officer), Cal. Penal Code § 243(c)(2) (battery on peace officer with injury) or Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (assault on peace officer with deadly weapon/force likely result in Great Bodily Injury).

This quasi-police state mentality has become so blatant, that now all Riverside County Sheriff’s Department personnel are now deemed to be “Risk Managers” for the County, and all Sheriff’s Department personnel are ordered to act pursuant to Riverside County Risk Management guidelines; not truth and justice, but in a manner to “to effectively protect the department and the public against needless and avoidable liability exposure”; no joke. This policy is in writing, and in the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Policies and Procedures Manual, Policy 301, that provides:

301.2 POLICY It is the policy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department to practice sound, contemporary, and practical risk management strategies throughout all divisions of responsibility. Every department member is a risk manager and shall adhere to the mandates within this policy to effectively protect the department and the public against needless and avoidable liability exposure.

Here are some of Mr. Steering’s Riverside County Sheriff’s Department cases:

In Kenneth Ciccarelli v. County of Riverside (2025) Mr. Steering obtained $1,300,000.00 for a man who was beaten by Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs when they came to his home in response to a disturbing the peace complaint for Mr. Ciccarelli playing his music too loudly on his back patio. The deputies falsely arrested Mr. Ciccarelli, falsely claiming that he swung his cell phone at one of the deputies.

The deputy had slipped and fell when he charged at Mr. Ciccarelli for exchanging expletives, and swatted Mr. Ciccarelli’s cell phone our of his hand with his police baton because he thought that Ciccarelli had recorded him with his cell phone when he slipped and fell. The deputy handcuffed and arrested Mr. Ciccarelli and punched him in his face when he was face-down on the ground, still handcuffed.

The deputies thereafter falsely procured the malicious criminal prosecution of Mr. Ciccarelli for felony resisting a deputy with force and violence, and Mr. Steering won that criminal case. Mr. Steering thereafter sued the County of Riverside and the deputies, and recovered $1,300,000.00 for Mr. Ciccarelli.

In Gregory Whaling v. County of Riverside, Mr. Steering obtain $498,000.00 for an innocent man who was falsely arrested by Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sheriff Robert Glaser for challenging Deputy Glaser to arrest him. Greg Whaling was walking by Deputy Glaser who was responding to a call for service by a resident of an apartment complex about a man who was walking around without a shirt and apparently bothering some of the tenants at the apartment complex. When the man who was the subject of the disturbance pointed out to Deputy Glaser that Mr. Whaling had been one of the tenants who had complained about him in the past, Mr. Whaling acknowledged that, in fact, he had complained about the man in the past. Deputy Glaser had ordered Mr. Whaling to leave the scene which Mr. Whaling them did.

For some reason, while Mr. Whaling was walking away from the scene with the aid of a walking cane, Deputy Glaser again told Mr. Whaling to keep walking away or he would arrest him. In response to that arrest threat, Mr. Whaling stopped walking away, turned around, pulled his shorts up and showed Deputy Glaser that he had surgery on both knees, and told Deputy Glaser that “You are not going to arrest me with these”. See a challenge to his authority, Deputy Glaser proceeded to arrest Mr. Whaling. Mr. Steering thereafter obtained $498,000.00 from Riverside County for Mr. Whaling’s false arrest. See, Temecula man who dared deputy to arrest him gets $498,000 for wrongful arrest suit

In Silvas v. County of Riverside (2023) Mr. Steering obtained $400,000.00 for a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sheriff School Resource Officer Derrick Bunn brutalized and falsely arrested a 13-year-old boy at San Jacinto High School during a school lunch recess. See video of beating of 13-year-old boy. See also, Ex-high school student gets $400,000 from Riverside County for alleged beating by sheriff’s deputies.

In Chynoweth v. County of Riverside, Riverside County Superior Court (2011), Mr. Steering obtained $750,000.00 from Riverside County for his being brutalized at the Temecula Rod Run.

In Daniel Torres v. County of Riverside, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Riverside) (2010), Mr. Torres obtained $500,000.00 from Riverside County for tasing and falsely arresting a 64 year old man who was pulled over in a bus turnout in Indian Wells, as he was suffering from a stroke; not drugs of alcohol.

In Danny Eatherton v. County of Riverside, Mr. Steering obtained $450,000.00 for the false arrest and use of excessive force upon Mr. Eatherton, who was standing in front of his home, and watching Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs beat an unconscious man who had led them on a vehicle pursuit.

The man crashed into Mr. Eatherton’s fence in the front of his property that drew him outside. See, Riverside County pays $450,000 to settle lawsuit by bystander who claims he was beaten by deputies. See, Video of Beating of Danny Eatherton.

In James Holley v. County of Riverside, Riverside County paid Mr. Holley $500,000.00 for excessive force and false arrest.

Gangster deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Jurupa Valley station were carrying out one of their “Saturation Operations”, when they saw James Holley standing on his front lawn; holding a can of beer; something that is not a crime in the City of Jurupa Valley.

The gangster deputies accosted Mr. Holley ordered him to prone himself out on his front lawn, and when he asked “Why”, the beat him badly and falsely arrested him.

In Parnell v. County of Riverside, Mr. Steering recovered $250,000.00 for undercover Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Detective falsely arresting and using excessive upon David Parnell, an innocent man. The deputies did a shoddy investigation and thought that Mr. Parnell was selling a Ditch Witch drilling device that he had purchased from a legitimate construction supply store in San Bernardino County.

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. 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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