I was the case agent for the Buford Furrow shooting at the Jewish community center in Granada Hills, California in the late ’90s. That’s where I spent about half my investigative career. I flew for a while in the FBI kind of as a recovery for that, then went to white supremacist crimes again. The rest were arrested and are still serving their sentences. Several of the ringleaders of this group, well, one was killed. Before the case was over, one FBI agent had been shot, another law enforcement officer was killed. One of my first assignments was an undercover, covert assignment surveilling and trying to discover the plans for a particular group of Aryan Nations members in the Pacific Northwest. I reached out to Moore to better understand how law enforcement officers are responding to calls to defund and abolish the police and replace law enforcement with more robust, community-based, social safety nets.Ĭould you please tell me a brief history of your career in law enforcement? He’s now a law enforcement contributor for CNN, and a professional pilot. After retiring, he chronicled his experiences in his memoir, Special Agent Man: My Life in the FBI as a Terrorist Hunter, Helicopter Pilot, and Certified Sniper (Chicago Review Press, 2012).

“It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what police do and what motivates crime”: An Interview with Steve Mooreįrom 1983 to 2008, Steve Moore served as a Special Agent for the FBI.

Special Agent Man by Steve Moore