It was NOT an empty classroom. Full of students. |
Ok, clearly I hadn’t read through to the end of the thread. Yikes. |
I am. Screw that guy. What's his name? |
| So, ghostbgun’s are like a kit and you build it? |
They do, and there was one at Magruder when this happened. An SRO couldn’t have stopped this, just like the SROs in Parkland couldn’t stop the mass shooting there. |
There’s absolutely no way you can prove that statement. We’ve tried the no-SRO route and it isn’t working. Perhaps it’s time for logic to prevail so students can once again have more resources in schools. Yes, the SRO is a resource. At the very least, having an SRO at the school would have helped in those first crucial minutes, leading to a quicker response time. Perhaps it’s time to stop hating police simply because they are police. |
| SROs prevent violence often. The uptick in school violence since their removal -not just here, but in many communities, proves it. |
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In this case an SRO would have been aware of who had a problem with the victim and would have found the shooter sooner than TWO HOURS later.
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This. And data actually shows that SROs only accounted for 3% of the arrests in mcps. Most of their time was spent preventing crimes and violence at schools. They know the student body and knew which kids had a beef with one another and if something was brewing. We don't have that in schools these days. |
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Obviously we're on our way to reinstatement of SROs in schools, and thank goodness for that. I'll never understand people who wanted to defund police, etc. I'm all for left-wing policies, but only when they actually make sense. If you want to address racism in law enforcement, you make make police academies MORE selective, and you lure in smarter candidates with more attractive pay (same method if you want to increase teaching standards).The dumb people will never react well in crisis situations regardless of the training they get! You can't staff such positions with the poorly-paid and the ones without critical thinking skills, and then act surprised that they're incompetent. We also need metal detectors and random bag searches. I'm a European who never had to deal with shootings in school, but did live through middle and high school under terrorist bomb threat. Our school perimeter was secure against cars with bombs. Anti-terrorist police would patrol the streets. Once some idiots spray-painted on a school wall, and we had a knife fight in the street between rival schools, so it was decided our bags would be searched for weeks after that. |
| One of the news outlets found the shooters address by searching his name in the moco arrest database so he had a record and an SRO would have been aware of that. |
There are peer reviewed studies that support the school to prison pipeline as well as peer reviewed studies that support the argument that SROs are effective. None of these studies involve Montgomery County, MD. |