Brutal Bad Cops Have to Pay

I don't think I can sit idly by complaining and ranting on Twitter about bad cops savagely violating the civil and human rights of plainly innocent people. 


This constant flow of police abuse roils my gut and makes me sick with bile and pent up anger.


No more tweets. It is time for action.


These malicious abusers have to be stopped. If an un-arrested, un-tried, un-convicted citizen dies or is injured at the hands of police, then the law should PRESUME the police committed a crime, with only narrow and strictly construed defenses allowed.


Awful, vicious abusers of state power, with ex post facto planted guns and drugs, backed by false reports, protected by their willfully lying coworkers and clueless employers, who quote internal policies as if they were actually law, will have to pay and pay dearly.


Just look at this sickening body cam video of a vicious, power-mad cop brutally assaulting a guy just hanging out on his mom's porch.


After getting beat down for being black, the cop charged the victim with assaulting an officer. The assault victim was charged! He definitely got his face in the way of the cop's fist.


This is just so wrong.


The district prosecutor, Howard Neumann (Alfred E. Neumann's brother?) said a cop can do whatever he wants!? He couldn't see a crime by the cop. Are you kidding? Where can I get some of these beat, taser, and kill people and then get paid leave rules?


The full story is here, at the Washington Post.


What rulebook applies to cops? Not the one the rest of us, who are supposed to be presumed innocent, get. That is clear. And it has to change.


This finally makes me mad enough to sue someone. Hard. And repeatedly.

Make More Money – Today.

“A penny saved is a penny earned” said Ben Franklin. Today, $100 a month saved is $1,200 earned over the course of a year.

You can shave your monthly bills by asking for reductions. It is easy and you can do it immediately.  

For example, my office phone bill arrived on Monday. I have three lines and an internet connection.

When I first got this service, it was $176.00 a month. Over the past few years it has slowly crept up. The bill showed that the charge for July was $236.00!

I thought advances in technology were supposed to make communications less expensive, not more.

After breathing deeply for a moment, I emailed my phone company’s sales office. I told them I was shocked by the bill and was inclined to shift to an internet phone system that might cost me only $100.00 a month. I also said that I’d consider staying with them if they reduced my monthly charge to $150.00.

Within a day a phone service representative called to tell me that VOIP systems are finicky, and that he could help me out. He could reduce my monthly rate to $159.99 per month for all the same features and internet speed. Sold.

A similar savings appeared a month ago. I have had satellite TV service at home for years. But the same set of channels, as many as half being shopping and infomercial bandwidth-wasters, had doubled from $39 a month to $79 a month —with no corresponding increase in value.   

I called the satellite company to tell them that cable service would be cheaper and that I would like to cancel. All of a sudden, my long history with them and my (secretly) built up loyalty points got me to $47.00 per month. Amazing what a call can achieve.  

Finally, my online legal research bill had recently crept up with services that I did not need or use. A call to that provider got that monthly bill reduced by nearly $80.00 per month.

Let’s see, I just saved $76 per month on phones, $32 per month on TV, and $80.00 per month on fee based research. I am suddenly pocketing $188.00 more every month. And all it took was an idea, an email and three phone calls.

Look at your bills. Ask your providers to do better. If they balk, get a new provider, or at least threaten. They’ll move to your demand, and you’ll be richer for the effort—today.  

Service

Tony Robbins is a globally recognized author and motivational speaker. He has risen to, and has access to, the highest echelons of society. He appears as avid a student as he is a teacher. More than that, he seems to be a decent, sincere man.


In his recent book "Money: Master the Game" he infrequently and obliquely discusses his own path to success. It is in those passages one finds little nuggets of wisdom. There is no doubt that the success Robbins has had came with some difficulty and challenges. His offhand remarks in that book  provide some useful insight on how to become more valuable.  One observation of his was particularly resonant with me as a seeker of success in life, and in the practice of law.


"How do I serve the greatest number of people?" he asked himself. That is the question that woke me in the wee hours this morning. How can I serve more people as a lawyer?


I have been actively searching for opportunities to make money in my law practice and in other areas of business.  It is a difficult challenge to look for these "opportunities." They are like the fabled jackalopes. There are no obvious markers and they are not easily seen. They take on varying colors and are as wispy as smoke---until you understand what they are at their source. That is where Robbins made the connection and asked the right question: How do I serve the most people?


That is the heart of opportunity. It is providing a service to those in need of a solution.


This focus point makes it far easier to actively seek out opportunities and even stumble upon some. As you look around your practice and the needs of your clients,and those who could be your clients, ask yourself how can you best serve them. That may be all that you need to focus your advice, your marketing efforts and your capital. With this insight in mind, I am going to focus on casting all of my efforts as service. In this mindset, I will be providing value as a matter of course.


It is not enough to ask how can I make money from this contract, dispute or transaction. It is the epitome of value to provide a useful service. If what you provide does not serve your client or customer, then it has little value and will likely be wasted time, or the source of dissatisfaction.

Serve first and serve many.