Brad Fletcher is a young man who impersonated a police officer.
History[]
When he was a child, Brad wanted nothing more than to be a police officer. According to his mother, he would dress up as a cop every Halloween. Brad purchased a police officer uniform and equipment, and posed as a graduate from the academy. He went to a task-force meeting and later apprehended Wayne Hankett, a serial rapist, in Central Park. However, SVU gradually began to notice that he wasn't an actual cop. He ran from the squad room. They later found him at his school and arrested him for impersonating a police officer.
He was offered a plea bargain for 100 hours of community service and six months, after which the charge would be expunged from his record, so he would have the chance to get into the academy if he wanted to. He later violated his probation by spying on Hankett and was shot by the latter's father Travis, but not before he discovered evidence that led to the arrest of both Hanketts.
Confined in a hospital, a recuperating Fletcher is admonished by Jo Marlowe for his actions but he reveals of the evidence he found. With the revelation taken to account, Fletcher is granted a second chance to get into the academy. Marlowe warns him to not get involved anymore in the case and to stay away from the field for five years until he becomes an officer. (SVU: "Wannabe")