Misrepresentation?

We don't suppose there's a law against it, but it's pretty low - Stolen Glory type low:

• OT: did anyone see that tactical barbie has resurfaced? Apparently she is a member of the CPD SWAT team. Well at least according to how she has portrayed herself on the Outdoor Channel. Isn't there something in the rules and regs about misrepresentation of yourself? Hmmmmmmm and how embarrassing are her abilities. She is suppose to be on CPD SWAT and the president of her silly women's group and she has no idea how to handle a shotgun? Wow, way to represent CPD, barbie!

For the uninformed, Tactical Barbie was a part of J-Fled's policy group. She formed the Women's Tactical Association with the laudable goal of bringing tactical training to the women of the CPD. Unfortunately, a huge number of questions were asked and then covered up by J-Fled and his cronies:

• about use of Department assets while supposedly off-duty (cars for transport, weapons);
• irregularities and shady explanations of "Code 049 - Training" when training was forbidden to anyone else;
• unfortunate (and somewhat unprofessional) imagery of lipstick bullets on flyers;
• corporate sponsored trips to the SHOT Show in Vegas and other locales in direct contradiction of supposed "Ethics Training."

Now on the Outdoor Channel, she is passed off as a CPD SWAT officer, a position she never held. Here's the link.

We don't know the film schedule of the series, but she isn't even a CPD employee anymore as evidenced by this Motorola profile, linked here. With enough lead time, we're sure the producers could have purged references to a Unit she never served in. By maintaining that fiction and by her reportedly less-than-stellar performance during the show, she doesn't do SWAT any favors.

But she still gets to carry a gun, thanks to this little bit of Cook County politics:

• Karen Bartuch has been in law enforcement since 2002 and still works part-time for a small county west of Chicago. She is the president and founder of the Women’s Tactical Association, a charity that brings tactical training to female law enforcement.

We know we're going to get a pile of comments here about her personal life - those will be deleted. We'll get a bunch more attacking us for hating on a woman who made a good career move - while we'll disagree with the merits of her move, we'll delete those comments, too, seeing as how our only beef at this point is her being misrepresented as a CPD SWAT officer and her being passed off as some sort of security expert based solely on her working for J-Fled.

Everything we have linked and pointed out is public knowledge and provable fact, via pictures from the WTA website showing CPD licensed cars at WTA outings, printouts of Attendance and Assignment Sheets from dates in question, copies of the flyers and pictures from the SHOT Show.