OH geez. Please do not force us to keep providing you with links to multiple news stories of how an SRO has helped prevent shootings or more. We've done this already but there's nothing we can do when you refuse to see the truth. |
Reading is fundamental and it would help if you stayed on topic. The facts are in 2019-2020 when we had SROs at MCPS, only THREE percent of incidents that were handled by SROs led to an arrest. Also, the majority of SROs were minorities. Also, all MCPS HS principals unanimously begged to keep SROs. Also, we are the only system in Maryland (the biggest in the state, one of the biggest in the country) that doesn't have an SRO program. What does that say about how we value the safety of students and staff? |
You mean you don’t like that they rotate? |
You know MCPS has an SRO program that is essentially the same but SRO’s rotate. |
No, meaning like they actually have SROs at the schools. Please see the actual resolution dated 2021: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/pgcps-school-board-vote-school-resource-officers/65-551556ee-53c7-4288-acff-255dc8b01b58 |
MCPS has SRO’s at the schools they call them CEO’s. They are literally the same people that were SRO’s with more training. They are sworn police officers. The do rotate schools. |
The Montgomery County Department of Police Community Engagement Officer Program consists of 23 sworn officers, one officer from the Rockville City Police Department, one officer from the Gaithersburg Police Department, and one deputy sheriff from the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. These 26 sworn officers represent the School Resource/ Community Engagement Officers cadre for Montgomery County, Maryland.
The Montgomery County Public School system, has 25 High Schools and 1 Alternative Learning School. The Community Engagement Officers are assigned to a cluster of schools, typically including one of the High Schools and its respective feeder schools (40 Middle Schools and 135 Elementary Schools). |
Correction. They don’t rotate. They work in teams and are assigned to a cluster. |
SRO's were literally sworn-in police officers too except they were in the buildings, assigned to a specific HS and building trusted relationships with students and staff. |
Unlike SROs, the CEOs aren't permanently stationed in a particular school. They rotate, and don't interact at all with students. Some of the SROs would engage with the students to create bonds and become mentors. There are some bad SROs, as there are some bad teachers, clergy, etc.. But don't make sweeping generalizations about a group because you wouldn't like it if people did that to certain other groups. |
CEOs are sworn officers. Assigned to a cluster of specific schools. |
You made a sweeping generalization that they built relationships. CEOs are in school, they are sworn officers, they can still create relationships with students. They just are not allowed to discipline students. |
My kids at Kennedy say they've never seen the CEO at their school. So I wouldn't say it's universally true or consistent, as tends to be the case with all things MCPS. It's very clear that CEOs, unlike SROs, are a "there if you need us" but meant to be invisible and outside of the school. Whereas the old SRO model was about a visible, consistent presence. |
That's the problem. No one sees them and no one knows of them. |
That only for 2021-2022 school year. That was changed Fall 2022. |