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Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader and proponent of constitutional, community-based policing, Michael S. Harrison has been at the forefront of bringing about departmental reforms and changing for the better essential relationships between the police and the communities they serve. He most recently led the Baltimore Police Department as its 41st Commissioner from March 2019 to August 2023.

Harrison served 27 years with the New Orleans Police Department and led the department as Superintendent from 2014-2019.

In Baltimore and New Orleans, Harrison has implemented effective alternative policing services that have benefited both citizens and officers, including innovative traffic accident response initiatives.

Michael Harrison has been instrumental in the development, implementation and assessment of community policing programs that have led to demonstrably increased partnership and collaboration. Moreover, he is skilled at moving progressive law enforcement bills forward through the legislature and implementing evidence-based crime fighting strategies, many of which assisted in tangible crime reductions.

Harrison was appointed to the Police Executive Research Forum Board of Directors in 2019, serving as its President from 2021 to 2023. He has been a member of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives and the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force.

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Dr. Sean Malinowski retired as Chief of Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2019 after 25 years of service where he drove innovation through data analysis and technology, establishing LAPD’s real-time crime center and overseeing the department’s Compstat inspections. Post-LAPD, he assessed Chicago PD's crimefighting infrastructure for the US Department of Justice, leading to groundbreaking data-driven crimefighting efforts that resulted in significant declines in gun violence over three years. Now, as Managing Partner of The Policing Lab, he leads a team of professionals who provide technical assistance and training for police departments, including Miami PD and Miami Dade PD.

Dr. Malinowski also serves as the Strategic Site Liaison to the Philadelphia PD for the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s National Public Safety Partnership program and is a Visiting Fellow for the Department of Justice, conducting a national assessment of real-time crime centers. He is a member of the National Advisory Board for Aegis Response Team.

Additionally, Dr. Malinowski is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Illinois. He has been recognized for his contributions to policing innovation being inducted into the George Mason University Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame.