I assume, then, that if this is struck down that impersonating a law enforcement officer will also be ok?
If you say you're acting as a police officer, I believe they will smack you down really good... LOL...
But, if you dress up as one, but don't have official badges and stuff (and you can look pretty close to it...) there might be some question there as to what someone could do about that if you walked around like that... :-)
Just don't go stopping anyone for traffic stops or something like that... LOL...
There have been people arrested for dressing like a cop for a Halloween party. The costume was “too close” to a real uniform in the arresting officer’s mind.
The Stolen Valor Act isn’t about some guy saying he was a SEAL to pick up some floozy at a bar. It’s about guys who wear the medals in an official way, as if they actually earned them.
You go to a Vet reunion wearing a CIB, you better darn well have better been in a unit who participated in combat.
You put a bronze star on a job application? You better have the paperwork to back it up.
Tell the chubby redhead who has downed 3 apple-tinis at the end of the bar that you earned a medal rescuing your buddy during the Iraq invasion to get her back to your apartment? Knock yourself out.