Reinstate School Resource Officers at MCPS

[Anonymous]

SRO saves lives:

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/indiana-school-resource-officer-praised-for-stopping-armed-man-while-other-districts-eliminate-sros/

https://www.police1.com/officer-shootings/articles/sro-takes-down-high-school-shooter-saves-lives-rGEcUGpZVZdm65fD/

https://www.cbs46.com/gwinnett-county-sro-saves-infants-life/video_97e95d45-f375-5863-8826-493158da353c.html

https://wjla.com/news/local/calvert-county-school-resource-officer-heimlich-maneuver-choking-middle-school-student-saves-life

Plenty of articles on positive things SRO's do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:SRO are fine just be prepared for a bunch of black boys leaving the schools in cuffs. Sure one or two serious incidents will be snuffed out but lots of pretend hard kids who are in minor fights and hopped up on adrenaline while wanting to look tough for the homies will disrespect the guards and get battery charges. White kids will get 2nd chances when their sorries and Sirs come out and mama pulls up in her X5.

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… and it is not backed up by Montgomery County statistics. 3% of student arrests recently were initiated by SROs. Just 3%. During the 2019-2020 school year, SROs initiated just 9 arrests, that’s less than one per high school. There will NOT be “a bunch”’of students leaving schools in cuffs… period. The SROs serve as a resource, a deterrent, a chance for positive interactions with police. The narrative you are promoting is not backed up at all by current, local statistics.

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Ya SROs barely do anything. This is mostly just a jobs program for cops they don't want to put on the street.

Shows you don't know anything about the program. Police have to go through a very selective application process to be SROs and schools get a say in who gets the job. They do tend to be older, and are mostly women and people of color, who have great skill at dealing with teens.

+1. There’s an additional application process. It’s misinformation like this that keeps the anti-SRO argument alive.

Like the Parkland SRO that ran away from the shooter?

That’s one SRO. Just one. I’ve had experience with multiple and they have all been very good at what they do. It’s usually not very effective to use one example to represent the many.

[Anonymous]

MCPS had one SRO for each high school and 2-3 in middle school before the program was ended. Does anyone know how many of the SROs were POC? I only personally saw SRO in four high schools, they were all POC. Is the diversity of the SRO a problem?

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS had one SRO for each high school and 2-3 in middle school before the program was ended. Does anyone know how many of the SROs were POC? I only personally saw SRO in four high schools, they were all POC. Is the diversity of the SRO a problem?

There were not any at our middle school. They’d only come if asked or an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you care about school safety, pls sign this petition.
https://www.change.org/p/montgomery-county-council-reinstate-school-resource-officers-at-mcps

Recently, there are a number of local and nation wide violence attacks against students. Here are two quick examples.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/blair-high-school-stabbing-student-charged/2021/11/09/7e87293a-4176-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/video-teen-girls-attack-students-on-septa-train/3051706/

It sounds the time to put our student safety first.

Thanks,

yes, please. and it appears there was a delay in appropriately locking down Magruder becuz no SRO. Our administrators and teachers need to be freed up to teach and interact with our kids. they cant be security, police and public health agents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS had one SRO for each high school and 2-3 in middle school before the program was ended. Does anyone know how many of the SROs were POC? I only personally saw SRO in four high schools, they were all POC. Is the diversity of the SRO a problem?

There were not any at our middle school. They’d only come if asked or an issue.

If most of SRO in MCPS schools are POC, why are the anti-SRO claiming that SROs are targeting minority students? Where is the data?
Do whiteAsian students get a pass when they assault other students in schools, bring a weapon including guns or knives, to schools, or deal drugs in schools? If the SROs are POC, why did they target minority students but let the other students carry out illegal activities?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS had one SRO for each high school and 2-3 in middle school before the program was ended. Does anyone know how many of the SROs were POC? I only personally saw SRO in four high schools, they were all POC. Is the diversity of the SRO a problem?

There were not any at our middle school. They’d only come if asked or an issue.

If most of SRO in MCPS schools are POC, why are the anti-SRO claiming that SROs are targeting minority students? Where is the data?
Do whiteAsian students get a pass when they assault other students in schools, bring a weapon including guns or knives, to schools, or deal drugs in schools? If the SROs are POC, why did they target minority students but let the other students carry out illegal activities?

We don't have SRO's in middle school so I don't even get your point. They are using it for their fake "advocacy" to stir up racial tensions. Its their only talking point. They are checked out parents who are ok with bad behavior and want to protect their own kids from getting in trouble. They want zero consequences for their kids at school and cannot be bothered with them at home. They need to play victim all the time rather than taking real action to benefit all students. They aim to keep the racial divide going vs. bringing people together.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS had one SRO for each high school and 2-3 in middle school before the program was ended. Does anyone know how many of the SROs were POC? I only personally saw SRO in four high schools, they were all POC. Is the diversity of the SRO a problem?

There were not any at our middle school. They’d only come if asked or an issue.

If most of SRO in MCPS schools are POC, why are the anti-SRO claiming that SROs are targeting minority students? Where is the data?
Do whiteAsian students get a pass when they assault other students in schools, bring a weapon including guns or knives, to schools, or deal drugs in schools? If the SROs are POC, why did they target minority students but let the other students carry out illegal activities?

We don't have SRO's in middle school so I don't even get your point. They are using it for their fake "advocacy" to stir up racial tensions. Its their only talking point. They are checked out parents who are ok with bad behavior and want to protect their own kids from getting in trouble. They want zero consequences for their kids at school and cannot be bothered with them at home. They need to play victim all the time rather than taking real action to benefit all students. They aim to keep the racial divide going vs. bringing people together.

This seems like another false flag to me. Like someone trying to stir up trouble around a non-issue. The bottom line is removing SROs has had almost 0 impacts. Let's spend our limited resources on things like books and teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS had one SRO for each high school and 2-3 in middle school before the program was ended. Does anyone know how many of the SROs were POC? I only personally saw SRO in four high schools, they were all POC. Is the diversity of the SRO a problem?

There were not any at our middle school. They’d only come if asked or an issue.

If most of SRO in MCPS schools are POC, why are the anti-SRO claiming that SROs are targeting minority students? Where is the data?
Do whiteAsian students get a pass when they assault other students in schools, bring a weapon including guns or knives, to schools, or deal drugs in schools? If the SROs are POC, why did they target minority students but let the other students carry out illegal activities?

We don't have SRO's in middle school so I don't even get your point. They are using it for their fake "advocacy" to stir up racial tensions. Its their only talking point. They are checked out parents who are ok with bad behavior and want to protect their own kids from getting in trouble. They want zero consequences for their kids at school and cannot be bothered with them at home. They need to play victim all the time rather than taking real action to benefit all students. They aim to keep the racial divide going vs. bringing people together.

This. When are we actually going to care about kids who do want an education and dont want to constantly encounter students who could care less and rather bring drama, their beef, and violence to schools?

[Anonymous]

The SRO in each High School, also covered the middle schools in their cluster. Just because you didn't know the SRO, doesn't mean you didn't have. All the principals wanted them.

As far as I know, they did a great job getting to know the kids, and preventing all kinds of crap from going down. My understanding is they were 64% POC. Why the Board of Education and County Council listened to a few whiny high school students and got rid of the program, is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SRO in each High School, also covered the middle schools in their cluster. Just because you didn't know the SRO, doesn't mean you didn't have. All the principals wanted them.

As far as I know, they did a great job getting to know the kids, and preventing all kinds of crap from going down. My understanding is they were 64% POC. Why the Board of Education and County Council listened to a few whiny high school students and got rid of the program, is beyond me.

Because hating on police is popular and they care more about their political career than students.

[Anonymous]

Might be happening after all. Too bad it took a shooting : https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220124-final.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS had one SRO for each high school and 2-3 in middle school before the program was ended. Does anyone know how many of the SROs were POC? I only personally saw SRO in four high schools, they were all POC. Is the diversity of the SRO a problem?

There were not any at our middle school. They’d only come if asked or an issue.

If most of SRO in MCPS schools are POC, why are the anti-SRO claiming that SROs are targeting minority students? Where is the data?
Do whiteAsian students get a pass when they assault other students in schools, bring a weapon including guns or knives, to schools, or deal drugs in schools? If the SROs are POC, why did they target minority students but let the other students carry out illegal activities?

We don't have SRO's in middle school so I don't even get your point. They are using it for their fake "advocacy" to stir up racial tensions. Its their only talking point. They are checked out parents who are ok with bad behavior and want to protect their own kids from getting in trouble. They want zero consequences for their kids at school and cannot be bothered with them at home. They need to play victim all the time rather than taking real action to benefit all students. They aim to keep the racial divide going vs. bringing people together.

This seems like another false flag to me. Like someone trying to stir up trouble around a non-issue. The bottom line is removing SROs has had almost 0 impacts. Let's spend our limited resources on things like books and teachers.

Yea, we could use all those library books to stop a bullet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Might be happening after all. Too bad it took a shooting : https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220124-final.html

I read that, too. I certainly hope they are taking a serious look at SROs again. PG schools, which have waay more URM than MCPS does, have SROs. A vast majority wanted them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Might be happening after all. Too bad it took a shooting : https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2021-2022/Community-Update-20220124-final.html

I read that, too. I certainly hope they are taking a serious look at SROs again. PG schools, which have waay more URM than MCPS does, have SROs. A vast majority wanted them.

They will rename them something else and bring them back, claiming that they “solved” their concerns with the program. Turns out that it’s easy to blame cops for the “school to prison pipeline” but kids are very much capable of keeping it alive on their own.