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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS, including Magruder HS, dropped the resource officer program in the school because some parents accused the resource officer of being racist (since many of the students that are questioned or detained were students of color).......even though many of the resource officers were officer of color themselves!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-schools-police-officer-program/2021/08/25/99fe70d2-058b-11ec-a654-900a78538242_story.html[/quote]

Not to say having a resource officer would have prevented this but this is just a continuing process of labeling all police officer as racist.  Sure, there are some bad cops but many are good people with family and kids of their own and just want to get home safe to be with their families.  By denigrating the profession, police academy will have less qualified applicants resulting in a decrease quality of officers.......very sad.[/quote]

Racism is structural and it's more strongly present in some structures than in others. The cops are a racist structure from the get-go--the idea of modern policing originates in slave patrols. Putting police into a structure like a school, which also has a history of structural racism, is not a great idea...as we can see from all the school shootings in which SROs have cowered, fled, or otherwise been radically ineffective. [/quote]

Then we should have metal detectors in the schools. No reason not to.[/quote]

Magruder's principal was my vice principal in middle school (Gaithersburg Middle). We had metal detectors at one point. There were threats of violence between two groups of kids... Laytonsville white boys vs minorities. At least one student was expelled for bringing a weapon (or weapons) to school. The metal detectors were there for us to walk through in the morning and to be let into at least one school dance. I was just a kid, but I think it helped calm things down. [/quote]

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