Police Misconduct Attorney Santa Ana, CA

Mr. Steering is a Police Misconduct Attorney who has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious prosecutions, wrongful deaths 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.

MOST SANTA ANA POLICE BEATINGS ARE REACTIONS TO “CONTEMPT OF COP” BY CIVILIANS.

Police officers who subject civilians to Excessive Force/Police Brutality, or who “fail the attitude test” (i.e. “Contempt of Cop“) routinely get falsely arrested for “resistance offenses”, such as Resisting / Obstructing / Delaying a Peace Officer (Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1)), Resisting a Peace Officer with Violence (Cal. Penal Code § 69), Assault on a Peace Officer (Cal. Penal Code § 241(c) & and Cal Penal Code 245(c)), and Battery on a Peace Officer (Cal. Penal Code § 243(b)). The do so to protect themselves from civil liability.

Far too often, the local County District Attorney’s Office is all too willing to prosecute the innocent victims of police outrages. In the 1980’s and early 1990’s, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office would routinely have those innocent victims of police beatings and false arrests by Santa Ana Police Officers sign plea forms that were actually felonious extortion forms. Those “extortion forms” had a check off the box where the innocent victims of Santa Ana Police beatings and false arrests would be required to “Stipulate to Probable Cause” for their arrests in order for the Santa Ana City Attorney’s Office to dismiss “resistance offense” criminal charges when the criminal defendants were innocent.

The Santa Ana City Attorney’s Office, that prosecuted misdemeanor resistance offenses, required this “Stipulation to Probable Cause” to preclude those totally innocent criminal defendants from suing the Santa Ana police for either false arrest or excessive force. Although this practice by the Santa Ana City Attorney Office was in fact a felony violation of California’s extortion statute (Cal. Penal Code § 518) and had been condemned a felony extortion by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (See, MacDonald v. Musick, 425 F.2d 373 (9th Cir. 1970)), that didn’t stop the corrupt Santa Ana police and the Santa Ana City Attorney’s Office to extort hundreds of innocent victims of Santa Ana police beatings and false arrests from that felonious conduct.

POLICE MISCONDUCT IN SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA

Santa Ana has always been a hotbed of police misconduct.

As far back as 1990, Mr. Steering won a $612,000.00 jury verdict (plus attorney’s fees) against Santa Ana Police Department police officer Steve Lodge for unreasonable force; Farahani v. City of Santa Ana, U.S. District Court (Santa Ana)(See, “Police Brutality False Arrest Case Results” pages for verdicts / settlements / judgments against other police agencies.) See also, City to Pay $292,500 to Man Who Says Officer Beat Him : Litigation: Attorneys reach settlement after city’s appeal of a federal jury award of more than $600,000, Los Angeles Times, September 17, 1991.

In more recent times the Santa Ana Police Department forced out its Chief of Police for exposing corruption of Santa Ana City officials as well as for  trying to steer the department “away from corruption” and cracked down on poor officer behavior, including on some who were “improperly accounting for their time.”.

See, Ex-Santa Ana police chief sues city alleging he was forced out for whistle-blowing, OC Register, October 3, 2017. Like other OC police Chiefs who try to reform the behavior of his/her subordinate Officers to conform to constitutional standards, the police associations in those departments is having none of it. See, 

IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU.

Mr. Steering is an expert in defending your bogus criminal action, in a way to best protect and enhance your ability to ultimately obtain some justice; reasonable compensation and redress, for your police beating; for your false arrest; for your unlawful search and seizure; for your malicious criminal prosecution; and for what’s usually at the center of all of the above, the exercise of our right to freedom of speech, and to complain to public officers, about misconduct by them or others, under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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 .