In May 2019, Alexander Weiss Consulting, LLC was engaged to prepare a staffing plan for the Baltimore Police Department as a part of its consent decree with the US Department of Justice. the plan is now open for public comment for 30 days. “When completed, the staffing plan will give us a much better idea than we have ever had of how best to utilize our most important resource — our people,” police Commissioner Michael Harrison said. “In doing so, it will make us a significantly more effective and efficient police department, which will be good for everyone: individual officers, the Department as a whole, and the city.”