Surveillance video of disabled cop

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Get hurt on the job and you could become an action hero!

Meet Mike. Mike was a dedicated and decorated deputy sheriff sheriff. Through no fault of his own he sustained career ending injuries in the performance of his duties. Mike is not unaccustomed to appearing on the small screen. He once was featured on Court TV for his role in discovering a murdered infant and for bringing the savage murderer to justice. Mike is a lot of things and one of these things was being an honest and trustworthy cop. So why would the county treat him like a criminal. They staked him out like a drug dealer! They followed him as he shopped with his family. If he had helped his wife load the groceries into the SUV would he have been busted as a pension scofflaw? Would the county have stripped him of his pension?

I was struck by the apparent lack of professionalism displayed by the investigator. Every angle would have left Mike vulnerable to less than a clear understanding of the events in the case of a dispute about an act or action by this officer. Not demonstrated in this video is that the private investigators acted like law enforcement officers as the pursued mike throughout the county. The investigators, and Mike's family and the public's safety where put at risk. The investigators if not acting in the "public's interest" probably would have been charged reckless operation or road rage. But they weren't. Apparently, it isn't a crime in California to stalk a cop and his family. 

For all the expense of following Mike as he went through a very difficult transition from active law enforcement officer, father and husband to being a retired and disabled cop, less active father and a husband that was forced to shift duties and responsibilities onto his spouse.  This really shows how the job has your back when you get hurt on the job. The job will sneak around you back until they get a chance to stab you in the back. In all fairness, his fellow officers where there to strip him of all the tools and symbols of his office once they decided he was injured to an extent that would prevent his continues employment.  It makes you wonder why the surveillances took place after the agency found disability. It should make you ask, "Why are they harassing this officer and his family?"

This is a waste of time talent and money and an insult to hard working law enforcement officers who have made the penultimate sacrifice of career ending injury. Absent probable cause this should never happen! Cops should be outraged as there is a good chance they'll be the next star on "disabled cops -candid camera." 

It is time to transform the law enforcement disability system from its adversarial role . Disabled police officers deserve a right to work law. The only disabled cop that should be forcibly separated from the service due to incapacitating injury are those that have suffered catastrophic injury.

To all law enforcement officers, unions, legislators and the public to get behind the Mikes and our nation's disabled police officers with a helping hand, rather than a camera and a shive.