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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Metal detectors and/or x-ray machines make sense at this point as well as having a police presence.  It absolutely can work.  And, being held accountable.  RJ may work for the K-5 crowd, but come MS and HS you know better and need consequences.  If my kid is bullied, no way I'd agree to them setting down with the bully to talk it out.  These bullies don't care nor do their parents.  They probably learned to be bullies from the parents.[/quote]

I think dogs would work better guns and drugs[/quote]

Except some kids are scared or allergic to dogs.[/quote]

Who cares, more are scared of cops.[/quote]
Wouldn't it be better to have those kids learn to bond with an SRO in a school setting, thereby reducing their fear of cops in the real world?

Not all cops are bad or racist. I mean.. there are black and brown cops, too.  You can have black/brown SROs in majority minority schools.[/quote]

Most are not racist.  Most are not bad.  By far.  But the media covers the Low-Probability High-Consequence events like officer-involved shootings more than anything else.  Because it sells.

Not saying that policing doesn't have to be improved -- it does.   But people should be focusing on systemic causes, not individual officer causes.  And community engagement in a non-enforcement setting is a best practice.  Which is exactly what good SRO programs do.[/quote]

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