Reinstate School Resource Officers at MCPS
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Anonymous
Police that work with SRO's and know how useless the program is. |
Anonymous
Good timing |
Anonymous
like Jawando |
Anonymous
Only criminals and anti-cops believe this. |
Anonymous
Except Stephen Austin started it. |
Anonymous
Dead kids cannot be alive. He's in the morgue, sadly. |
Anonymous
? You don't think SROs hear things in the school? If an SRO wouldn't have helped, and clearly MCPS' Restorative Justice program doesn't help, then what would? Nothing? Just throw up our hands and keep toeing the line that SROs are pointless? I'd seriously like to hear what Elrich and Jawando think we should do about all the violence and mental health issues in the schools. Don't give me lips service. Provide actionable items to address the issue. Thank you. |
Anonymous
No actually people who actually understand the program think that. Take the SRO's, make the ones that have no degree get one in psychology or education and pay for it, take away arrest powers and make them live under the same code of conduct at teachers. SROs should only be involved in life saving events. They should not be glorified security guards, they should not be sitting in a room eating donuts, they should not be harassing kids for minor things that teachers can handle and principals should deal with. If they can't do the minimum to be around kids they don't belong in schools. They take washed up cops or ones that are not effective on the street or can't be trusted and they throw them in this program. Do not just take washups, recruit for this position, train for this position... act like it's not a second thought. |
Anonymous
You are trying to tell me that teachers did not know that this child had issues but an SRO in the hallway will? You think kids confide in SRO's but not in teachers? You have clearly never worked with/beside/around and SRO. You can't prevent every.single.thing. Personally I'd have dogs go through the school and sniff out drugs and guns, but they won't allow it because you know who has drugs? rich white kids |
Anonymous
| You know who are unbiased? Dogs. |
Anonymous
omg.. that's too funny.. you think black and brown kids don't have drugs. Hysterical. I went to a majority minority HS out west, and the drug deals I saw go down in school was committed by a black guy in my 10th grade English class with another black guy. Teachers are there to teach, not to stop fights and bullets. I'm fine with drug sniffing dogs. Do they have gun sniffing dogs? That would be great, too, but I can imagine that the anti-SRO snowflakes would complain that their larlo is afraid of dogs or allergic so we need to get rid of them. We can't prevent every single thing, but we can do everything possible to prevent this kind of thing happening again, and that includes SROs. |
Anonymous
It is clear you know nothing about the SRO program. I’m curious whether you’ve even had any interaction with an SRO. The council has done a beautiful job smearing the program. In reality, the SROs play a vital role in the school. They are not glorified security guards. (I should know. I worked for a long time in a school with both.) You act as if SROs are poorly trained and/or should be feared. You are wrong. They are trained police. Outside of schools, the vast majority of police interactions contain absolutely no use of force… like close to 99% of interactions. And within schools? Even less. In Montgomery County during the 2019-2020 school year, they initiated only nine arrests county-wide. Just nine. They are NOT a threat to students. The data doesn’t back that up. People who know… like 100% of principals… know the value the SRO has to the school. If you still have concerns, particularly if/when they are reinstated, try talking to the school and the SRO. I suspect you’ll find that your concerns are unfounded. |
Anonymous
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Just to recap the conservative talking points I've gleaned from this thread:
Bad schools teach restorative justice! Our children are in danger because we need more guns in schools!! Police in schools! At least those schools! It's for the children!! No, our children do not go to these schools or have problems. But other children are in dangerrer! Pandemic? What pandemic? We need metal detectors. Metal detectors for thee, but not for me. |
Anonymous
Yes. Silver Spring Justice Coalition and Jews United for Justice are a bunch of older white UMC women who think they are allies but they are really white saviors. Young People for Progress are a bunch of Bernie Bros. |
Anonymous
You know SRO’s are not required to have a 4year degree. You wouldn’t even allow a teacher to teach with that little education. They are very poorly trained. They have no training for dealing with kids . If you think the 2-4 week training is “education” you should sit in on that too. It’s not a use of fired issue and the fact you don’t know the difference Seuss means you need to educate yourself. Please read some scholarly articles and research on these programs. |