Jeff Schlanger
Jeffery Schlanger (born April 7, 1953) is an American lawyer, businessman, and expert in risk management and regulatory monitorships. He is currently the Deputy Commissioner for Risk Management at the New York Police Department (NYPD) and was formerly Chief of Staff in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as well as the president of Kroll Government Services, KeyPoint Government Solutions, and Exiger Advisory.
Early Life and Education
Schlanger was born in New York City in 1953 and grew up in Valley Stream, N.Y. His father, Samuel Schlanger, was a mechanical engineer and inventor. His mother, Litza Schlanger (née Koppelman), was an executive in an import-export firm in Manhattan before starting her own business in Valley Stream. Schlanger attended Valley Stream South High School. He earned his bachelor's degree from SUNY Binghamton (now Binghamton University) in 1975 and his law degree from New York University School of Law in 1978.
Career
After graduation from NYU Law, Schlanger began his professional career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (DANY). He served as a trial attorney and homicide assistant in the office between 1978 and 1984, as senior trial counsel between 1984 and 1990, and as senior investigative counsel between 1986 and 1990. Among his most high-profile cases were the investigation and prosecution of the Westies, a Hell’s Kitchen-based gang, and the prosecution of John Gotti, the mob boss who was the head of the Gambino crime family.
Following his years at the DA’s office, Schlanger founded and ran a private investigation firm called Corplex, which specialized in oversight assignments, including monitorships. Corplex was purchased by Kroll in 1998, and Schlanger spent the next 11 years of his career there—the last six as president of Kroll Government Services.
As President of Kroll Government Services and head of the Security Services Group, Schlanger led the company through 9/11 challenges, headed the engagement of Kroll with the Bank of Nova Scotia to recover gold reserves from the ruins of the World Trade Center, and established the public safety advisory group with former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.
Throughout his tenure at Kroll, Schlanger, at the request of city and state governments, conducted numerous police department related investigations including at the Tennessee Highway Patrol, San Francisco Police Department, and Austin Police Department. From 2001 through 2009, he was the Primary Deputy Monitor for the Los Angeles Police Department, leading the day-to-day operations of what is widely regarded as the most successful police monitorship ever imposed by the U.S. Department of Justice.
During this same period, Schlanger also led the successful bid for the contract to conduct federal security clearance investigations for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and personally managed the unit created to perform that work. In 2009, Kroll Government Services was purchased by Veritas, a private equity firm specializing in the government sector, and was renamed KeyPoint Government Solutions.
From 2009 to 2014, Schlanger served as the president and CEO of KeyPoint Government Solutions growing the contract with OPM multifold and securing similar work with multiple federal agencies. The organization employed approximately 3,000 special investigators nationwide.
Schlanger left KeyPoint in 2014 to join his former colleague, Cy Vance, Jr. at the beginning of Vance’s second term as the Manhattan District Attorney. As chief of staff at DANY, Schlanger led the implementation of the priority initiatives for Cy Vance’s including the establishment of a program of “extreme collaboration” with the NYPD, then being led by Commissioner Bill Bratton. This partnership with NYPD led to the funding of NYPD’s mobility initiative, providing mobile devices for the first time to 36,000 sworn members of the Department.
In 2015, Schlanger left DANY to join Exiger as managing director and president of Exiger Advisory, Exiger’s consulting division. During his tenure at Exiger, Schlanger established the Construction Monitoring Group and oversaw the monitorship of HSBC, as well as consulting assignments with a multitude of financial institutions. In addition, he served as the monitor for the University of Cincinnati Police Department overseeing reforms which the Department voluntarily undertook following a fatal officer involved shooting.
In 2018, Schlanger left Exiger to become counsel to Police Commissioner James O’Neill at the NYPD. Later that year, Schlanger was asked to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of NYPD’s Risk Management Bureau (RMB). In that position, Schlanger was responsible for the department’s compliance with the federal monitorship growing out of stop, question and frisk abuses. He was also responsible for the relationship of the department with other oversight entities including the Inspector General for NYPD. Schlanger introduced a number of key reforms to the department including: the RISKS (Remediation of Identified Situations Key to Success) reviews for the department, which involves meeting with the command staff of each precinct, transit district and housing police service area twice per year in an effort to address the variety of different risks facing the department; the Early Intervention Program, designed to identify at-risk officers and address performance issues through non-disciplinary interventions; a redesign of the Quality Assurance Division to extensively utilize department data to identify potential risks to the department; the Civil Rights Integrity Unit to ensure that the department was always policing in a manner consistent with the federal and state constitutions; the department-wide roll-out of body worn cameras (BWCs) and the extensive utilization of body worn camera video in the risk management process.
Schlanger has also served in a variety of pro-bono positions including Special Assistant District Attorney in Nassau County and Special Counsel to the New York State Commission on Public Integrity.
Personal Life
Schlanger and his wife Teresa live in New York City and have three grown children.
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