Selected Public Safety & Institutional Projects

Bridging the gap between high-level vision and the messy reality of departmental data.

Modern public safety leaders are asked to do the impossible: make perfect decisions in real-time using fragmented data under intense public, legislative, and judicial scrutiny. I help Chiefs and City Managers move past the "software demos" to see the ground-truth of their operations.

Staffing & Recruitment: Multi-Scenario Attrition Forecasting

  • The problem: Managing a 1,500+ personnel department through the volatility of post-COVID attrition and budget uncertainty.

  • The solution: Developed a forecasting model that integrated illness, early retirements, and incentive-driven departures.

  • The result: Provided leadership with clear capacity thresholds, allowing for evidence-based hiring timelines and a defensible strategy for managing overtime exposure.

Legislative Mandates: Body-Worn Camera Impact Modeling

  • The problem: Unfunded or under-funded statewide mandates that threaten operational budgets.

  • The solution: Conducted a full-lifecycle cost analysis—including the "hidden" costs of review workload, storage, and off-duty usage policies.

  • The result: Equipped executive leadership with scenario-based projections to negotiate funding and manage operational tradeoffs under statutory constraints.

Resource Allocation: 5–10 Year Growth & Deployment Projections

  • The problem: A city growing faster than its police districts can keep up with.

  • The solution: Integrated residential development trends and roadway expansion with call-for-service (CFS) volume.

  • The result: Linked resource allocation directly to response-time performance, giving City Managers a roadmap for sustainable growth and infrastructure needs.

System Integrity: Statewide Reporting & Data Preservation

  • The problem: Transitioning to new state reporting systems without losing years of historical trend data.

  • The solution:Served as the subject-matter expert on data translation and schema changes, ensuring quality assurance during system redesign.

  • The result: Maintained longitudinal reporting integrity, ensuring the department’s story remained consistent and defensible across technical transitions.

Operational Readiness: 911 Deployment & Capacity Analysis

  • The problem: Knowing if the current deployment model can actually handle real-time emergency volume.

  • The solution:Identified structural data integrity flaws in the CAD/911 vendor systems that were masking operational risks.

  • The result:Provided a risk-mitigation roadmap for system redesign, ensuring leadership was making deployment decisions based on reality, not flawed vendor metrics.

The Framework Behind the Results

The projects above represent more than technical fixes; they are the output of a specific approach to building institutional resilience. I don’t just provide a service; I partner with your leadership to ensure your information systems serve the public good.

How We Partner

Every public safety engagement is built on a foundation of strategic leadership & governance and technical implementation. I move fluidly between acting as your chief information officer—planning, advocating for you with vendors, and translating complex data for stakeholders—and your lead data analyst—doing the deep-dive work to weave together your disparate systems.

  • Learn the philosophy: Discover how we build resilient institutions through the lens of choicetech.

  • See the model: Explore how we can combine strategic oversight with hands-on implementation via the institutional resilience path.

Why this matters for your leadership

These aren't just one-off data projects. They are examples of what happens when you have CIO-level strategy, high-level analytics, and choicetech literacy applied to your most sensitive operations. I don't just hand you a report; I stay to help you understand and improve the choicetech running your department.

Learn more about how I provide this leadership as a Fractional CIO.

Remake The Rules can help

I’ve worked with big-city bureaus and small departments just beginning to stretch their capabilities. Services for public safety agencies often include:

  • Understanding current informational and analytical capacities, limitations, and opportunities through system audits

  • Recommending improvements and possible paths forward through project roadmaps

  • Fixing information flows and advocating for internal software users by problem-solving with third-party software providers

  • Verifying compliance with privacy and data protection laws and policies

  • Building and onboarding new data and analytic tools

  • Supporting data-driven leadership and executive decision making through choicetech literacy coaching

Based in Colorado, Remake The Rules is equipped to work with client’s regardless of their geographic location through remote collaboration as well as initial or intermittent on-site, in-person work.

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Book a call or emailt o learn more about me, see example proposals from other jurisdictions, and to talk about how we can support the public good and strengthen the integrity of your institution through better data and decision making.

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