Evidence first.
Our recommendations are grounded in peer-reviewed research, legal standards, and empirical data. When we tell you something, we can show you the basis for it.
We help agencies exceed the standard before someone else measures them against it.
Del Carmen Consulting exists because good intentions are not enough. Agencies need partners who understand the research, respect the constraints, and know how to make change stick. We have spent over two decades doing exactly that.
Our Story
Founded on research. Built for implementation.
Del Carmen Consulting was established by Dr. Alex del Carmen at a time when few scholars were studying racial profiling—and even fewer were helping agencies do something about it.
Dr. del Carmen was among the first researchers in the United States to publish empirical studies on racial profiling in policing. Rather than remaining in the academy, he built a firm that could translate that research into operational guidance: policies that work, training that changes behavior, and data analysis that stands up to scrutiny.
Today, Del Carmen Consulting is the leading provider of racial profiling analysis and bias-free policing services in Texas. Our team members have been entrusted with oversight of major police reform efforts across the country.
Chiefs, city managers, and community leaders turn to us when the stakes are high and the work must be done right.
How We Work
Rigorous, realistic, and built for the long term
We approach every engagement with a consistent methodology—one that has been refined over more than two decades of work with agencies of every size.
Built for your constraints
We understand that agencies operate under real constraints: budgets, politics, union agreements, community expectations, and the demands of daily operations. We design interventions that account for your actual environment, not an idealized version of it.
Implementation, not just recommendations
A report that sits on a shelf is worthless. Training, policy rollout, supervisor coaching, and ongoing assessment are core to our work, not afterthoughts.
Measured tone.
We are not here to shame or blame. Our approach emphasizes systems over individuals, progress over punishment, and durable change over symbolic gestures.
Our Team
Scholars, practitioners, and federal appointees
Del Carmen Consulting brings together academic expertise, law enforcement experience, and operational knowledge. Our team has written the research, implemented the reforms, and been entrusted by federal courts to ensure accountability.
Dr. Alex del Carmen
Founder
Dr. Alex del Carmen is a nationally recognized scholar-practitioner whose work helped shape how U.S. law enforcement measures, reports, and responds to racial profiling. Among the earliest researchers in the United States to publish empirical studies on the subject, he is the author of Racial Profiling in America (Prentice Hall) and Racial Profiling in Policing: Beyond the Basics. He also developed the Texas racial profiling reporting template now used by agencies across the state.
Since 2001, Dr. del Carmen has trained every chief of police in Texas—more than 4,000 chiefs—through the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT). He has also delivered instruction to personnel from over 900 law enforcement agencies. A TCOLE-certified instructor, he is known for bias-free policing, executive leadership, and accountability training grounded in both operational realities and peer-reviewed research.
Dr. del Carmen currently serves as Special Master for the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, supporting oversight of a major police reform effort. He previously served as Federal Monitor for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
His work has been featured in national and international media, including The Economist, and he is a frequent commentator on issues of police accountability, racial profiling, and law enforcement reform. Dr. del Carmen’s approach bridges rigorous academic research with the practical demands of policing—translating scholarship into operational guidance that agencies can implement and courts can trust.
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Gary Loeffert
Senior Consultant
Gary Loeffert brings over 28 years of law enforcement expertise to Del Carmen Consulting, including nearly 25 years as a Special Agent with the FBI. He retired as the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Buffalo Field Office, having previously held leadership roles in the Miami, Dallas, and Jacksonville offices.
During his FBI career, Gary served as case agent on large-scale investigations that dismantled international drug trafficking and money laundering organizations. He conducted internal investigations involving alleged misconduct, executed top-down policy reviews, and oversaw integrity audits to ensure compliance with FBI policy. He trained and supervised over 1,000 agents and task force officers across a diverse workforce.
Gary holds a Master of Criminal Justice and began his career as a community police officer with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, where he developed expertise in community policing strategies in underserved communities.
He currently serves as Assistant Special Master on one of the largest police reform consent decrees in the United States, appointed by a federal judge to provide technical assistance to the parties involved. His expertise in analyzing law enforcement policies and managing complex organizational change is central to his work with Del Carmen Consulting.
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Holly Loeffert
Director of Operations
Holly Loeffert manages executive communications, client relations, and high-level logistics for Del Carmen Consulting. She ensures that every engagement is executed with professionalism and attention to detail.
Holly brings extensive experience in coordinating sensitive, high-stakes work. She coordinated efforts at U.S. Embassies in Cambodia and Ethiopia, earning recognition from Ambassadors and Deputy Chiefs of Mission. She later served in the FBI’s Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC), where she was the primary point of contact between the FBI and Chief Security Officers of Fortune 500 companies across the United States.
In that role, Holly arranged intelligence briefings at the FBI Academy and oversaw planning and coordination for the DSAC annual conference in Washington, D.C. Her experience managing complex logistics, executive-level communications, and time-sensitive operations is essential to Del Carmen Consulting’s ability to deliver consistent, high-quality service to clients.
Why Us
What sets Del Carmen Consulting apart
We wrote the standard.
Dr. del Carmen’s Racial Profiling in America and Racial Profiling in Policing: Beyond the Basics are used in criminology programs and cited in federal court opinions, including a 1st Circuit Court of Appeals decision in a consent decree case. The Texas racial profiling reporting template he developed is used by agencies statewide. This isn’t a firm that follows best practices, but one that established many of them.
We are trusted by federal courts.
Dr. del Carmen currently serves as Special Master for the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, overseeing one of the largest police reform consent decrees in the country. He previously served as Federal MOnitor for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Gary Loeffert serves as Assistant Special Master on the same case, appointed by a federal judge to provide technical assistance on compliance.
We understand operations.
Our team includes former law enforcement executives who have managed large organizations, conducted internal investigations, and implemented reforms under real-world constraints. We know what works on the ground, not just on paper.
We deliver training that officers respect.
Dr. del Carmen has trained every chief of police in Texas since 2001 through the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas. He is also a guest instructor at the FBI National Academy in Quantico. Officers engage with this training because it’s grounded in the realities of police work.
We stay engaged.
Most consulting engagements end with the report. Ours don’t. We support policy rollout, coach supervisors through implementation, and return for follow-up assessments that measure whether changes are holding. The goal is not a report. The goal is that the report’s recommendations are still being followed a year later.