Maureen Casey is a Vice President with Giuliani Partners LLC, an alliance of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and a number of senior executives from his administration and Ernst and Young LLP, which provides strategic consulting services to municipalities and major corporations. Her primary areas of responsibility include public safety and crisis management. Ms. Casey is currently coordinating Mr. Giuliani’s project with the Police Department in Mexico City to make recommendations regarding its efforts to reduce crime in the City. She also recently completed work on a project with the United States Department of Justice Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force program, in which a management accountability program was developed.
Before joining Giuliani Partners, Ms. Casey worked for the New York City Police Department. She joined the NYPD in 1997 when she was appointed as Counsel to the First Deputy Commissioner. In this capacity, Ms. Casey provided legal and policy advice to the person responsible for running the NYPD’s day-to-day operations. In July 1999, Ms. Casey was promoted to Deputy Commissioner for Policy and Planning. As Deputy Commissioner, Ms. Casey served as a key advisor to the Police Commissioner on managerial, administrative, and operational issues affecting the Department. She supervised the Office of Management Analysis and Planning, which functioned as the Police Commissioner’s research and policy development staff, coordinated administration of the Department’s grant funding, analyzed NYPD crime data, disseminated crime statistics, and coordinated external audits of the Department. Ms. Casey also participated in the weekly CompStat meetings. In addition, the former Deputy Commissioner coordinated the NYPD’s strategies for 2001, which were to continue the NYPD’s crime reduction efforts, improve community relations, and improve police officer morale.
Ms. Casey also served as special advisor to the Police Commissioner regarding the NYPD’s efforts to better utilize DNA technology in the Department’s crime fighting efforts. Further, she was responsible for coordinating the collection of DNA samples from the family members of the victims of the World Trade Center attack and the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in Queens. As a result of her expertise in this area, Ms. Casey was asked to serve as a member of the working group for Attorney General John Ashcroft’s Initiative on DNA Laboratory Backlogs.
Prior to joining the NYPD, Ms. Casey served as General Counsel to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services and as Counsel to the Governor’s Director of Criminal Justice, who is responsible for coordinating law enforcement, corrections, probation, and parole services throughout New York State. She also served as Assistant Counsel at the NYS Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives and was a probation officer in Warren County prior to pursuing her law degree. Ms. Casey has been licensed to practice law in New York since 1989. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Buffalo School of Law and a Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, from the State University of New York at Brockport. Maureen Casey is a 1980 graduate of Hudson Falls High School.