Asked for an example of when Michael Harrison’s leadership failed the city of New Orleans, Councilman Jason Rogers Williams settled on one of the now-former police superintendent’s most recent actions.

“There was that one time he took that job in Baltimore.”

Pressed for a better example, Williams described one instance when he thought Harrison made the wrong decision, but his concerns were ultimately unfounded.

“I can’t think of a time that he failed us, no.”

Like Williams, city officials from New Orleans showered praise on Harrison, the man who tomorrow will begin the confirmation process to become Baltimore’s next police commissioner. As advertised, Harrison has been a good steward of the department as it navigates the reforms mandated by a federally enforced consent decree, they said in interviews with a Baltimore City Council delegation sent to the Crescent City to find out more about the prospective commissioner.

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