Dr. Alexander Weiss is senior vice president of Voorhees Associates. Alex has over thirty years experience as a public safety practitioner, researcher, trainer, and consultant. In 2007 Dr. Weiss retired from Northwestern University where for nine years he was director of the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety and Professor of Management and Strategy at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Prior to his appointment at Northwestern, Alex was a member of the faculty of the department of criminal justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. During that time he also served as a senior advisor to the Indianapolis Police Department. Dr. Weiss was instrumental in the department’s implementation of crime control strategy sessions and enhanced information systems. Dr. Weiss has twelve years of experience with law enforcement agencies in Colorado. During his tenure with the Colorado Springs Police Department he served as a field supervisor and director of operations analysis.

Alex has written and lectured widely on topics such as resource allocation and work scheduling, police innovation, highway safety, program evaluation, and racial profiling. For the past five years he has directed the Illinois Traffic Stop Study, an analysis of traffic stop data for some 1100 Illinois law enforcement agencies. He has served as a consultant to the National Institute of Justice, the National Research Council, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Since 2007, Dr. Weiss has been engaged in a number of management studies for small, medium and large departments including:

• Development of a Traffic Incident Management Plan for the Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Department (population 500,000)
• Feasibility of Consolidation of the Burr Ridge and Willowbrook, Illinois Police Departments (population 50,000)
• Police Staffing Analysis for the Village of Pingree Grove, Illinois (population 5,000)
• Management Study for the DuPage County Emergency Telephone System Board (population 1,000,000)
• Staffing and Best Practices Assessment for the Delaware, Ohio Police Department  (population 30,000)
• Comprehensive Consulting Services for the Rockford Illinois Police Department including:
• Public Safety Services (Police–Fire Consolidation) Study for Holland Michigan (population 35,000)
• Patrol Staffing Analysis for the Chicago Police Department Bureau of Patrol.

Alex Weiss holds a master of public administration degree from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in political science from Northwestern University.