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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for Marc Elrich, since he unilaterally pulled the SROs out of the schools:  why didn't you do an independent, validated survey of a representative sample of parents, teachers, and kids about whether they want SROs or not?

Prince George's County, which has 55% AA enrollment and 37% Latino/a enrollment, did a real survey, and 82% thought SROs were important or very important to have in schools.

Charles County conducted one, too, with 56% AA enrollment and 10% Latino/a, and 90% thought SROs were important to have in schools.

So why does a group of 30 child advocates get to call the shots here?   I get listening to kids, giving them input, validating their experiences.   But in the end, adults need to make the decision.   [/quote]
Elrich doesn’t run schools. MCPS and specifically Dr. McKnight run schools. She has been the chief proponent of removing SROs and adamant that they don’t return. By the way, she lives in PG County and her kids attend PGPS. [/quote]

He runs the police department and he pulled them regardless of what anyone else wants. [/quote]
The council cut the funding for the program, led by Riemer and Jawando. [/quote]
Also, the chief of police runs the police department. Elrich has little influence over the day to day operations of the department and he rightfully shouldn’t and we shouldn’t want that.

Did he support removing SROs and does he continue to support keeping them out? Yes. He said so himself during the press conference. But it’s not his call. It’s MCPSs call to request the program and the councils job to provide the funding. [/quote]

Elrich is micromanager of the police.  He hates them.  Always has.

MCPS cannot force county government to provide police officers to schools.  They don't pay for them.   They are solely under Elrich's control. [/quote]
The idea that Elrich is a micromanager of anything is ridiculous. The knock on him from the people running against him is that he doesn’t care about the details. Further ridiculous is the idea that the chief of police would take day-to-day operations instructions from Elrich. That’s just utterly ridiculous and the chief would probably consider it defamatory. No self respecting police chief would do that.

But, I could really care less about Elrich. He’s part culpable in that he has sufficient political power that if he opposed removing the SROs or came out in favor their return, SROs would be in schools right now. But beyond that, all of the responsibility lies with 3 people: McKnight, Jawando and Riemer.

Elrich did not order the removal of SROs from the schools. The council literally ended the program. [/quote]

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