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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SROs are not useless.  My children are at WJ, and a couple of years ago (pre-Covid), a student told the SRO about a former student living in Baltimore who was posting messages on SM with an assault rifle, threatening to shoot up the school.  Former student was arrested and put in jail before anything bad happened.  Don't tell me SROs are useless, because you are wrong.

Just one example of many good things SROs do (did).  [/quote]

Anecdotes are not evidence. In this example, the student could have just as easily reported to the police department.

The evidence that does exist, the actual data, show few associations between SROs and reductions of violence (and absolutely no association with school shootings, btw).[/quote]

The point was they knew the SRO and were comfortable with the SRO and told.  Most people would rather talk to someone they know vs. calling 911.  Most kids would not call 911 to report.  Be ral.

There are lots of positive stories on SRO's but you are just too closed minded to hear them.[/quote]

And you’re too biased and convinced you know best to actually look at the evidence. You know the saying… when you assume things, you make a @.. out of yourself.

https://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai21-476[/quote]
Well, that's pretty damning:

[i]U.S. public school students increasingly attend schools with sworn law enforcement officers present. Yet, little is known about how these school resource officers (SROs) affect school environments or student outcomes. Our study uses a fuzzy regression discontinuity (RD) design with national school-level data from 2014 to 2018 to estimate the impacts of SRO placement. We construct this discontinuity based on the application scores of nearby police agencies for federal school-based policing grants. We find that SROs do effectively reduce some forms of violence in schools, but do not prevent school shootings or gun-related incidents. We also find that SROs intensify the use of suspensions, expulsions, police referrals, and arrests of students. These effects are consistently over two times larger for Black students than White students. Finally, we observe that SROs increase chronic absenteeism, particularly for students with disabilities.[/i][/quote]

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