But at first blush, there are some encouraging signs in his record. In New Orleans, he has been operating under a federal consent decree like the one he would be tasked with implementing here. He spent a substantial portion of his career in internal affairs — something that should be top of mind for a Baltimore commissioner in the wake of the Gun Trace Task Force scandal. And he comes from a city that, like Baltimore, has historically had high rates of violent crime. We’ll need to dig deeper into the record of his years as chief, but in general, the number of violent crimes and homicides specifically are an order of magnitude lower than they were when he joined the New Orleans Police Department 27 years ago. No one in Baltimore can say that.