David Riedman

David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, conducts research on gun violence in schools, and authored multiple peer-reviewed articles on homeland security policy, critical infrastructure protection, and emergency management. He has keynoted the largest conferences for public health, emergency management, and campus security to share his research on school shootings. He formerly worked as the Homeland Security Adviser for the DowntownDC Business Improvement District and served as a firefighter and emergency medical technician in Maryland for 18 years where he reached the rank of Captain.

In fall 2021, with Dr. Peterson and Dr. Densley from The Violence Project, he co-published six op-eds on school shootings in The Washington Post, LA Times, Star Tribune, Education Week, Sun Sentinel, and USA Today. In addition to his own research and writing, the K-12 school shooting database has been used as a primary data source in 80 peer-reviewed articles and reports and cited by more than 1,000 media outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, Denver Post, New York Post, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Forbes. The database’s website has been visited by more than one million users.

He is an adjunct professor in the graduate department of criminal justice at Aurora University and is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student at University of Central Florida studying criminal justice and juvenile justice policy.