Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal 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 Villa Park, throughout Orange County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal courts in Alabama and in the District of Columbia.
“THE YOUNG LAWYER KNOWS THE LAW, BUT THE OLD LAWYER KNOWS THE JUDGE”.
Mr. Steering’s 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. If you cannot win your Civil Rights Police Misconduct Lawsuit then you have no rights, because you have no way to enforce them, and a right without a remedy in the real world does not exist.
THE POLICE IN VILLA PARK ARE OFTEN BRUTAL AND ARE INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST.
Before incorporation, the City of Villa Park, California, was an unincorporated area of North Orange County, known primarily as agricultural land with citrus and other orchards. Villa Park became Orange County’s 17th city when residents voted to incorporate in 1972.
Villa Park has a population of approximately 5,800 residents. The demographics of the City of Villa Park are: White: 64.9%, Asian 19.3%, Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 12.4% and Other races / multiracial combined 14% (including 3.4% other races, 11.3% two or more races)
The City of Villa Park contracts its police services with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; an agency that has been plagued with scandals for many years now.
THE BRAD GATES PISTOL PERMIT SCANDAL.
Brad Gates served as the elected Sheriff of Orange County, California, from 1975 to 1999. Sheriff Gates had a well-earned reputation for cronyism; for rewarding his campaign contributions with special favors and privileges, such as Carry Concealed Pistol Permits.
In 1990 a federal jury awarded two private investigators, the Guillory Brothers, $246,000.00 against Sheriff Gates for essentially denying them Carry Concealed Weapon permits because the refused to contribute to his political campaign. See, Jury Finds Gates Violated Rights in Gun Permit Suit : Sheriff: Ending 11-year case, a federal jury awards $246,000 to 2 private investigators, saying he acted with ‘reckless disregard’ for Constitution in favoring friends. Los Angeles Times, September 29, 1990.
THE SHERIFF MIKE CARONA CORRUPTION SCANDAL (1999–2008).
Mike Carona, served as the elected Sheriff of Orange County from 1999 until his resignation in early 2008, following his indictment on federal witness tampering charges. He was convicted and sentenced to federal prison in 2009. See, Federal court upholds witness-tampering conviction for ex-OC sheriff Mike Carona, Los Angeles Daily News, August 28, 2017.
Sheriff Corona’s tenure as Orange County Sheriff was corrupt right from the beginning, when he created a new, and ultimately found illegal, Level IV Reserve Deputy Sheriff position with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. The Level IV Reserve Deputy Sheriff position was in reality a way to give Deputy Sheriff badges to his campaign contributors. See, O.C. sheriff made donors his deputies, Los Angeles Times, May 26, 2005. Both of Sheriff Corona’s Assistant Sheriff’s, Don Haidl and George Jaramillo (“Team Forever”) were also Indicted and convicted on bribery and related corruption charges, and both served prison time. See, Carona’s `Team Forever’ is shattered, Press-Telegram, September 1, 2017.
THE ORANGE COUNTY JAIL INFORMANT SCANDAL.
From the 1980s through the 2010s, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department maintained a secret network of jailhouse informants who were deliberately placed in cells next to targeted defendants to obtain incriminating statements from them, in violation of their constitutional right to counsel. The Sheriff’s Department paid two real-deal Mexican-Mafia Gangsters to intimidate jail inmates, especially on “cold cases” (old cases that had not been solved) into confessing to murders.
The biggest problem with the Orange County Jail Informant Scandal wasn’t that they were getting guilty inmates to confess to their crimes. The problem was they were getting innocent inmates to confess to crimes that they didn’t commit. See, Justice Department Finds Civil Rights Violations by Orange County, California, District Attorney’s Office and Sheriff’s Department in Use of Jailhouse Informants, U.S. Department of Justice, October 13, 2022.
THE ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT DOCUMENT BOOKING SCANDAL.
Two Orange County Sheriff’s Department internal audits uncovered severe shortcomings in evidence handling. Nearly 30% of evidence was booked late, with delays averaging 3½ days. Over one-quarter of the deputies retained evidence for 31 days or more, and some never booked it at all. Nothing happened to these violating deputies, as the Orange County District Attorney’s Office refused to prosecute all but three of the many deputies who filed false police reports regarding booking of evidence.
In short, no matter how much the Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs committed crimes or violated Sheriff’s Department policies, nothing happened, other than paying lip service to the violations.
IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU ACTUALLY ENFORCE YOUR RIGHTS BY WINNING YOUR CASE.
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.
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. You need a unanimous jury of usually 8 jurors to vote in your favor in federal court to win your case. If you mouth-off to the cops or don’t do what the police tell you to do or cuss out the cops, or act like a jerk, one or more of the jurors in your case may not vote for you. That is the reality in which we all live.
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.
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. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”.
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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