Police Misconduct AttorneyRiverside County, California, Police Misconduct Attorney

Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering is a Specialist and Expert in Suing Police Officers and Defending Bogus Resisting Arrest / Battery on Peace Officer Cases, since 1984. Mr. Steering has been suing police officers, and defending bogus criminal cases of crimes against police officers since 1984. The majority of our firm’s law practice, is suing police officers and other government officials, for claims such as false arrest, police brutality / excessive force, malicious prosecution, and other “Constitutional Torts.”

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 accept this claim, as their experiences with the police have for those people, generally are positive.

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 to brutal police beatings of innocents.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin exchange pleasantries

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 objects to; often because they don’t understand why the constable is ordering them about.

Thereafter, the 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 the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office 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.

This quasi-police state mentality has become so blatant, the 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.

If you are reading this article, chances are that your bubble has already burst, and you or your are being charged with some “resistance offense”, or have otherwise been beaten or abused by the police.

In Silvas v. County of Riverside (2023) a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sheriff / School Resource Officer Derrick Bunn brutalized and falsely arrested a San Jacinto High School Freshman student D.L.S. during a school lunch recess.

It was the students first day at his new High School, The day before the incident with D.L.S., there was several fights at the school; none of which involved D.L.S.

As D.L.S. walked around the school courtyard and greeted some of his old friends, 13-year-old D.L.S. was suspected of encouraging some of his fellow students to engage in more fights. School Resource Officer Derrick Bunn told D.L.S. to go to the school office, and followed him there. D.L.S. turned around and asked Deputy Bunn “What did I do?“, as he had no idea why he was being made to go to the school office. 

SRO Bunn told D.L.S. “Don’t f__k with me”, grabbed him, tossed him about, slammed him down on the ground and handcuffed him. Deputy Bunn and SRO Timothy Dunlap and took him to jail. Riverside County then paid D.L.S. $400,000.00 for Deputy Bunn’s and Dunlap’s outrageous actions.

Sgt. Ken Southern

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., Mr. Chynoweth was showing his hot rod that day, and actually told his friend not to argue with Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Ken Southern. Sgt. Southern didn’t care for Mr. Chynoweth telling the friend to cooperate with Sgt. Southern and move his car, or he was going to be ejected from the Rod Run show. When Mr. Chynoweth made that statement, Sgt. Southern proceeded to tell Mr. Chynoweth to leave, and when Mr. Chynoweth walked over to his Hot Rod in the parking / display space that he rented, Sgt. Southern proceeded to tossed the 64 year old Mr. Chynoweth to the ground, knee-dropped him and took him to jail.

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.

Danny Eatherton

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.

Mr. Steering serves Riverside County and the Riverside County cities shown below, and otherwise throughout Southern California. 

James Holley at the Sheriff's Department after being beaten and falsely arrested

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. 

Don’t get framed by a creepy police officer when you are the victim of police outrages; get paid instead for your false arrest, police beating and malicious criminal prosecution. 

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  • Concealing Evidence
  • Destroying  Evidence
  • False Arrest
  • K-9 Maulings
  • Malicious Prosecution
  • Police Beatings
  • Police Brutality
  • Police Shootings
  • Whistle Blower Retaliation
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POLICE MISCONDUCT IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY.

Because “ratting out fellow officer is not a good career move, and because of the obvious political and practical consequences of not backing-up the their fellow officers (i.e. false testimony and false police reports), the norm in today’s police profession, is for peace officers to falsely arrest, and procure the bogus criminal prosecution (i.e. to literally “frame”) of those civilians, whose Constitutional rights and basic human dignity have been violated.

The gang at the Riverside County Sheriff's Department Jurupa Valley Station
The “gangsters” at the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Jurupa Valley Station

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is especially disgraceful when it comes to abusing civilians and framing them for crimes that they didn’t commit, to protect their deputy sheriffs from civil, disciplinary and criminal liability. 

Mr. Steering constantly sues the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department more and more often these days, because the simple truth is, that the Department is simply a morally bankrupt organization. When a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriff uses unreasonable force or falsely arrest civilians, the department encourages further constitutional transgressions, by defended the outrages against the public committed by the deputies. 

They don’t properly train their deputy sheriffs, and not only tolerate the use of unreasonable force and their accompanying false arrests and malicious criminal prosecutions, but, by case by case of backing the deputies, promote and encourage future constitutional violations. If you’re reading this article, you are probably a person who wouldn’t have believed these serious allegations, until they actually happened to you or yours.

These deputy sheriff’s procure the bogus their victims’ false criminal prosecutions, to beat-down the innocents who’s constitutional. Sheriff Sniff’s Professional Standards Bureau (Internal Affairs) has become the “white wash” wing of that agency. Under great political pressure, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has just started using body cam recording devices. However, they are just clip on devices, and they can be made to not have been on or working when the Sheriff’s Department wants the recording to exist or not.

DON’T LOOK TO THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE POLICE. THEY AREN’T INTERESTED.

Riverside County if rife with Police Misconduct; especially since the District Attorney of Riverside County, Mike Hestrin, has taken discretion away from his Deputy District Attorneys to dismiss even bogus “resistance offense” cases, such as “resisting / delaying / obstructing officer” or battery on a peace officer. 

The Deputy District Attorneys who file criminal cases in Riverside County Superior Court have at most an average of 15 minutes to review the police report from the arresting police agency, and make a decision as to where to criminally prosecute you. The filing Deputy District Attorneys. Moreover, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office has now taken the power to dismiss even de minimis criminal cases away from the line Deputy District Attorneys in Riverside County.

Accordingly, as the filing Deputy District Attorneys don’t get to look at the police or other video and audio recordings before they decide to file a regular criminal “resistance offense” such as resisting arrest or battery on peace officer, which is really almost always battery by a peace officer.

If you are being prosecuted for some sort of “resistance offense”, the Deputy District Attorney on your case must seek permission from his/her superiors to dismiss any case where the alleged “victim” is a peace officer. They only get that permission when you have basically a video or audio recording that the police lie their way out of; something that they do for a living.

These so called respectable criminal prosecutors really do criminally prosecute the victims of police outrages, knowing that they are prosecuting the real victim. It is simply shameful.

MR. STEERING IS WATCHING THE WATCHMAN IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY.

SOME OF MR. STEERING’S CASES AGAINST THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT.

SOME OTHER RIVERSIDE COUNTY CASES OF MR. STEERING

Mr. Steering also obtained an $825,000.00 settlement at completion of trial from the Riverside County City of Desert Hot Springs, for unreasonable force and false arrest [Moore, et al. v. City of Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County Superior Court (2012)

In Gardner v. AMR, U.S. Dist. Court (LA) Mr. Steering obtained a $650,000.00 settlement of It took AMR ambulance 1 hour and 36 minutes to get to the scene of a heart attack called in on the 911 system wrongful death, for failure to provide ambulance service.

In Risk v. Cathedral City, U.S. District Court Central District of Cal. (Riverside)(2006) Mr. Steering obtained a $125,000.00 settlement for false arrest / excessive force.

In 2012 Mr. Steering also obtained an $825,000.00 from the Riverside County City of Desert Hot Springs, for unreasonable force and false arrest (Moore, et al. v. City of Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County Superior Court.

Mr. Steering has also had many acquittals in OC Superior Court; especially in cases involving false arrests. If you are the victim of police misconduct, such as a false arrest, the use of excessive force, a malicious criminal prosecution, first amendment / free speech retaliation, or other police outrages, we can help you. See, What To Do If You Have Been Beaten-Up or Falsely Arrested By The Police.

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