Charlie Lenzen

**Charlotte A. "Charlie" Lenzen** is a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputy. 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

Charlotte Alison Lenzen was born on September 2, 1993 in Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Charlie is the 2nd of 5 children to operations manager Gregory H. Lenzen and swimming instructor and amateur model Claire Lenzen (nee Fitzgerald). Charlie was a competitive track and field athlete in middle and high school, she also took up amateur competitive shooting in high school. Charlie graduated from Notre Dame High School in 2011.

## Career

Charlie began her career as a University of California Police Department (UCPD) officer at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2014. Charlie enjoyed her career; however she soon found her job a little lacking in excitement and variety, she also found the college atmosphere a bit dull. Charlie went on to work crime prevention but eventually decided it was time to change agencies. Charlie joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) in 2020, she worked patrol at the Compton Station in the Central Patrol Bureau before eventually transferring to the Operation Safe Streets Bureau in 2022. Charlie became one of the few female members of the Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB), the LASD SWAT team.

Charlie joined the Los Angeles Precision Shooting Team (LAPST) in 2021, becoming the third female member behind Victoria Allen and Maggie Marks. Her arrival prompted Thomas Howe to form a female team, something he'd been wanting to do for years but lacked the female team members to be able to do so, when the Sentinel Blue Women's Team was founded in 2022, Charlie became one of the first members. With Sentinel Blue, Charlie has won several events in all three Law Enforcement Multigun (LEM) categories: Agency, Standard, and Unlimited. Charlie is sponsored by TacWorks Academy for equipment, ammunition and training, Tactical Goddess for clothing and shooting gear, and Taran Tactical Innovations for handguns and competition gunsmithing. Charlie used her Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0 as her Agency and Standard category handgun, and an Taran Tactical Innovations customized Glock 34 as her Unlimited category handgun. She used her standard issued LWRC M6 and Remington 870 Police shotgun for her Agency and Standard rifle and shotgun, she uses a TTI TR-1 Ultralight rifle and a TTI Benelli M2 Tac Ops, both customized by Taran Tactical Innovations as her as her Unlimited Category rifle and shotgun respectively. In 2023, Charlie decided to focus solely on the Unlimited category and decided to no longer compete in the Agency and Standard categories, she does however remain on the roster as an alternate if the need arises.

### LASD Service History

* Compton Station: 2020 to 2022
* West Hollywood Station: 2022 to Present (Safe Streets Bureau)

## Personal Life

Charlie has described herself as 'somewhere between queer and asexual', she is currently single. Charlie is currently assigned to the West Hollywood Station and lives in West Hollywood with her ferret. As with all members of the Sentinel Blue Women's Team, she is sponsored for clothing and tactical gear by Tactical Goddess, Tammy Doyle, founder and designer of Tactical Goddess said that Charlie represents a perfect challenge to keep the style of Tactical Goddess appropriate and appealing for all women. Doyle said "There's an entire spectrum on the team; Victoria is ultra feminine, Maggie can go either way from very pink and girly to tactical and unisex, Sonia is more androgynous and unisex in her style, Tracy is a typical laid back modern woman with an 'urban comfort style', and Charlie is far more gender neutral and not especially into pink or bright colors. I wanted our line to represent the entire range of styles female competitors have, it's very important we appeal to everyone, and no one gets stuck with something they don't love."

Charlie is a Thursday person, a Virgo in the western zodiac, and a Water Rooster in the Chinese zodiac.

## Trivia

* Charlie is right-handed.
* Charlie considers herself female but also identifies as gender non conforming.
* Charlie loves cheddar cheese and ketchup sandwiches.
* Charlie wanted to be a mechanic when she grew up.
* Charlie considered both the Border Patrol and the Army before eventually joining the LASD.
* Charlie has a ‘collecting fetish’ for old keys.
* Charlie once dated a cabaret performer.

## 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
	+ Tracy McGaren: LAPD Member
	+ Rachel Petersen: LAPP Member