Tracy McGaren

**Tracy E. McGaren** is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective I currently serving with the LAPD Gang Impact Team. She is also a semi-professional competitive shooter with the Sentinel Blue Women's Team of the Los Angeles Precision Shooting Team (LAPST).

## Early Life

Tracy Elizabeth McGaren was born on October 27, 1991, in Los Angeles, California to insurance broker Eloise Fletcher and LAPD detective Brian McGaren. Tracy grew up in Burbank, California and graduated from Burbank High School in 2009. Tracy competed in IPSC single stack championships during middle and high school.

## Career

Tracy began her career working at the Sherman Oaks Galleria as a sales assistant. In 2012 she graduated from the Los Angeles Police Department Academy at the top of her class. Tracy began her LAPD career working patrol in the North Hollywood Division before eventually being promoted to detective in 2018. Tracy eventually transferred to a Gang Impact Team (LA IMPACT Group 4) of the Gang and Narcotics Division (GND).

Tracy joined the Sentinel Blue Women's Team when it was founded in 2022, she has won several events in all three Law Enforcement Multigun (LEM) categories: Agency, Standard, and Unlimited. Tracy is sponsored by TacWorks Academy for equipment, ammunition and training, Tactical Goddess for clothing and shooting gear, and Salient Arms for handguns and competition gunsmithing. Tracy used her Smith & Wesson M&P as her Agency and Standard category handgun, and a Salient Arms customized Glock 17 as her Unlimited category handgun. She uses her standard issued Colt M4A1 and Remington 870 Police shotgun for her Agency and Standard rifle and shotgun, she used a Custom-built AR rifle and a Benelli M2, both customized by TacWorks as her as her Unlimited Category rifle and shotgun respectively. In 2022, Tracy decided to focus solely on the Standard category and decided to no longer compete in the Agency and Unlimited categories, she does however remain on the roster as an alternate if the need arises.

### Service History

* Valley Bureau: 2012 to 2018 (North Hollywood Division Patrol)
* Gang and Narcotics Division: 2018 to Present (Gang Impact Team)

## Personal Life

Tracy is a competitive tennis player and a marathon runner. She is currently single and has no children. Tracy has explained that she felt it hard to avoid living under the shadow of her father's legacy from the CRASH and post-Rampart eras. Tracy is a Sunday person, a Libra in the western zodiac, and a Metal Goat in the Chinese zodiac.

## Trivia

* Tracy is right-handed.
* Tracy loves custard.
* Tracy wanted to be a detective since she was 5.
* Tracy considered going to college but decided it wasn’t cost effective.
* Tracy once arrested two public ‘self pleasurers’ in one day.
* Tracy keeps a journal of unique threats she’s received.
* Tracy once had a one-night stand with an LASD captain.

## See Also

* Sentinel Blue Tier One Team
	+ Steven Ellis: LAPD Captain
	+ James Wells: EMPD Member
	+ Maggie Marks: HSI Member
	+ Sonia Knight: ICE Member
* Sentinel Blue Men's Team
	+ James Wells: EMPD Captain
	+ Steven Ellis: LAPD Member
	+ Kevin Hyde: ATF Member
	+ Calvin Winslow: HSI Member
	+ Todd Desmond: LASD Member
	+ Jason Hughes: VCSO Member
* Sentinel Blue Women's Team
	+ Maggie Marks: HSI Captain
	+ Sonia Knight: ICE Member
	+ Victoria Allen: BHPD Member
	+ Charlie Lenzen: LASD Member
	+ Rachel Petersen: LAPP Member