FBI Honors Glen Moore for Training Schools to Prevent Mass Violence
Special Agent in Charge Chris Crocker surprised Glen Moore (holding certificate) with the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award at today's School Safety Initiative conference.
Today, the FBI surprised Glen Moore with the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Chris Crocker made the announcement at an FBI School Safety Initiative conference for more than 200 school administrators, school staff, and law enforcement officers from the greater St. Louis region.
SAC Crocker said, “We are honoring Glen Moore for going above and beyond in training schools throughout Missouri. He teaches methods based on research to help schools prevent mass violence.”
Mr. Moore has trained approximately 1,000 school employees and provides the training no matter how small the school or how far he must travel.
Mr. Moore became a vital FBI partner shortly after FBI St. Louis launched the School Safety Initiative in 2021. As director of threat management with the Missouri School Boards’ Association, Center for Education Safety, he trains schools on the threat prevention model that he helped design.
The model works to mitigate developing threats or concerns before they escalate to the level of involving law enforcement. Specifically, Mr. Moore trains schools on how to create threat assessment teams, how to identify and help students of concern, and how to off-ramp them from continuing down a potential path towards violence.
SAC Crocker said, “We cannot prove a negative after a concern has been resolved. However, we are aware many schools successfully identified students of concern and helped meet the students’ needs.”
In addition, the Missouri State Highway Patrol has attributed a jump in anonymous tips to its Courage2Report tipline as a result of the School Safety Initiative conferences.
Topics during today’s conference included: A Student’s Pathway to Violence, Building School Threat Assessment Teams, Trends in Youth Crisis Intervention, Hoax Threats, Swatting and Sextortion, and Online Threats and the Joint School-Law Enforcement Response.
To date, FBI St. Louis has held 10 School Safety Initiative conferences for school administrators and law enforcement since 2021 in St. Louis metro, Cape Girardeau, Columbia, Rolla, and Sullivan. We thank Ladue High School for hosting today’s conference once again.
The FBI formally created the Director’s Community Leadership Award in 1990 as the principle means to honor individuals or organizations for their outstanding service to the local community and enduring contributions to the advancement of justice.
Previous FBI St. Louis DCLA Honorees:
- 1990 Joseph Cunningham, former St. Louis Cardinals baseball player
- 1991 The late Martin Mathews, Mathews-Dickey Boys’ & Girls’ Club
- 1993 The late Jean Leible, Neighborhood Activist
- 1995 Pastor Harry Douma, Camp Penuel
- 2005 The late Martin Mathews (two-time honoree)
- 2006 Karen Aroesty, Anti-Defamation League
- 2007 Pastor B. T. Rice, New Horizon Seventh Day Christian Church
- 2008 Dave Sinclair, Dave Sinclair Auto Group
- 2009 Bill Wilkerson, "Reach Out St. Louis!"
- 2010 Dr. Stephen Bander, Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics
- 2011 Anthony Thompson, Founder, Carnahan High School Gentlemen’s Club
- 2012 Kimberly Ritter, Nix Conference & Meeting Management - Sex-trafficking prevention
- 2013 Angel Baked - Social enterprise empowering inner city teens with jobs
- 2014 Wehrenberg Theatres – Publicizing FBI safety messages during movie previews
- 2015 Emerson’s Ferguson Forward Initiative
- 2016 Shubert Design Furniture (in conjunction with Gary Sinise Foundation)
- 2017 Danny Ludeman, President & CEO, Concordance Academy of Leadership
- 2018 National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse - St. Louis Area – Opioid misuse
- 2019 Missouri Masonic Children’s Foundation - MoCHIP
- 2020 No honoree due to COVID-19 Pandemic
- 2021 No honoree due to COVID-19 Pandemic
- 2022 Michelle Li, President and Co-founder, Very Asian Foundation
- 2023 Adolphus M. Pruitt II, President, NAACP St. Louis
