Practice — 02
Government consulting
Advisory and analytic support to agencies and public bodies engaged in policing, oversight, and public safety.
Dr. Atherley has spent more than a decade building and operating the internal performance measurement, evaluation, and analytics capability of a metropolitan police department under federal consent decree. That work is the basis of the advisory support offered here: what an agency must be able to demonstrate, what its records will and will not support, and how to build the capability to answer both questions.
Advisory and analytic support
Support to agencies and public bodies engaged in policing, oversight, and public safety operations. This is program and capability work, distinct from the opinion domains set out under legal consulting.
Oversight and reform
- Consent decree complianceDesign and operation of internal performance measurement and compliance analytics under federal oversight; what a monitoring regime requires an agency to be able to demonstrate.
- Police reform programsStructuring reform initiatives so that progress is measurable and defensible to a court, a monitor, or an oversight body.
- Performance managementDevelopment of agency performance measures; early intervention system design; accountability reporting.
Data and systems
- Data governanceRetention, access, quality, and stewardship of police administrative data; policy for data sharing with researchers and oversight bodies.
- Administrative data systemsAssessment of records, dispatch, and force-reporting systems; what an agency can and cannot measure with what it holds.
- Decision support systemsEvaluation and implementation of analytic and decision support tools in police operations, including validation and error characteristics.
Operations
- Operational risk managementRisk-managed response to calls for service; dispatch triage; allocation of patrol resources.
- Threat assessment and threat managementDesign and review of agency threat assessment and threat management programs.
- Intelligence function organizationStructure, tasking, and quality standards for criminal intelligence and analysis units.
- Research partnershipsEstablishing data-sharing agreements and research-practice partnerships with academic institutions.
Initial contact
Please describe the organization, the question, and any timeline. Every engagement begins the same way: a short description of the matter, a conflicts check, then a scoping conversation.