Reinstate School Resource Officers at MCPS
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Anonymous
This, if you don't learn by the third time, you have bigger problems. |
Anonymous
I didn't hear about a teacher being assaulted. What happened? |
Anonymous
3 speeding ticket or even parking -> lose your license I’m all for it, especially camera tickets |
Anonymous
I never heard that and my kids go there. We do have 2 alt-right teachers though .., good times. |
Anonymous
When you type disingenuous nonsense like this, all of your arguments are suspect. Polly klass' father distenced himself from 3 strikes because it was too broad (with offenders of minor offenses like stealing a piece of bread) not because he disagreed with putting violent offenders away for life. He continues to be a strong supporter of the death penalty. |
Anonymous
This. Maryland has the lowest covid spread and the highest vaccination rate. You can't model our policies as if we are, say, new Mexico or whoever that weird sherif Joe is. Our sro policy needs to be based on data from here. Not from wherever sherif Joe is in power. |
Anonymous
He created a law “3 stiles you are out” … he didn’t understand how it would affect the community as a whole. He did not understand laws or how they work. It increased crime … that is on him. Nobody thinks violent offenders should not be in jail FS. When you type Disingenuous stuff like this all your arguments are suspect. You also don’t understand how policies affect the community as a whole. |
Anonymous
It's you. Really. "Using data from all criminal convictions during 1990 through 1999 in California’s three biggest cities—Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego—Iyengar finds that the three-strikes law did indeed have a large effect on the likelihood of recidivating (committing a crime after release from prison) in the two years following a prior offense. For those with one strike, the law reduced recidivism by 14 percent; this doubled to a 28 percent reduction for two-strikers, whose next crime would trigger the minimum 25-year prison term." And yes, those who chose to offend again became more violent more quickly, just as they would have done anyway, just over s longer time period. Same with the "sros are school to prison pipelines@" Those kids are going to prison anyway. Without sros around, they're just taking good kids to the hospital first. |
Anonymous
Guess the bible's right: spare the rod, spoil the child! |
Anonymous
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Mom of Magruder victim is interviewed. Supports SROs in schools.
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Anonymous
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Lawyer for the Magruder victim's family said, "Was it the [Montgomery County Council's] thought that it was in the best interest of our children to lock our kids into the school with the lone gunman and no one else who was armed or even trained to deal with this problem?" Rowe asked. "It just doesn’t make sense, and it’s one of the horrific things that the Thomas family is dealing with here."
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/ghost-gun-magruder-high-victim-mom-speaks-out/65-cdd6a5da-fad2-419f-97f2-dddca26e1abf |
Anonymous
That’s a good question and identifies how negligent they have been. The options are very simple, if you want to take the cops out of schools then they also get the violent thugs out of the schools too. The decided that they were unwilling to do the latter, in fact they continue to refuse to acknowledge the latter as a problem at all instead insisting that some magical counseling is going to fix these kids. |
Anonymous
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IMO, after this incident, it's clear that we need SROs. Having one may not have stopped this particular incident, but it's clear that admin and staff are not trained (nor should they really be) to assess this type of situation and respond to it appropriately.
Whatever Restorative Justice MCPS has tried, it's not working. SROs are not the only answer, but it's one tool in the shed we can utilize to protect our children, AND to make connections with kids who clearly need better guidance and direction. It's time MCPS brought back the SROs, even temporarily for a year or two, since we all know that last year's VL created a lot of mental health issues in kids. The fallout is going to take a while to recover. |
Anonymous
The basic issue is that if they are intent on keeping SROs out of school then they need to be vigorous about identifying and removing violent and disruptive kids from schools. If they will not do that then SROs are needed, period. |
Anonymous
Meanwhile, more kids will get hurt. Just pray it isn’t your kid next. |