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[quote=Anonymous]I found the 3% arrests stat myself in here: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/pol/Resources/Files/SRO/MCPD-SRO-FAQ.pdf

[quote]SRO Initiated
 In the 2019-2020 School Year, the SROs charged 269 students, a combination of physical and paper arrests. A School Resource Officers primary focus is to maintain a safe learning
environment for all and act as a bridge to establish positive relations with students within the school system. If an SRO observes illegal behavior, it is incumbent to immediately address the situation, especially violent or dangerous actions. It is only a small percentage of total arrests by SROs that were initiated by the SRO. In fact, of the 269 incidents, only nine were selfinitiated by the SROs themselves. That is 3% of all the arrests made by SROs in the 2019-2020 School Year.

School Initiated
 A vast majority of total arrests made by SROs were initiated by MCPS administrators, MCPS Security staff, MCPS teachers, or parents. This means the SRO was notified by
administrators, parents, and staff that they had a student detained in the office for an offense, MCPD School Resource Officer Program or they needed the SRO to assist with a disturbance or other emergency. During the 2019-2020 School Year, over 97% of all enforcement action by SROs were initiated by MCPS. This calculates to 260 of the 269 total arrests for the school year. MCPD is committed to working with MCPS on revising procedures and policies to lessen the impact of arrests, particularly those incidents of a minor nature, whenever possible.
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And so now that I know what that stat means, I can say that a) yes, of course a single human being in a school of thousands of kids wouldn't be a direct witness to most incidents and b) the question is, what would MCPS have done in those 97% of cases if an SRO hadn't been present? In what percentage of cases would they have called the police vs handled the incident without involving the criminal justice system?[/quote]

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