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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The SRO's are not wanted because they are required to involve police in matters which the school want to keep things hush hush.  The more arrests, assaults, etc... the worse the school looks.  Now do I think teachers and staff want them?  Yes.  Does administration and central?  Absolutely not [/quote]

This is so true.  Do you know a MCPS school is not mandated to contact the police when there is a rape on campus?  Right now schools are barely contacting police for things police should be contacted for. [/quote]
Interesting question. CPS mandatory reporting could be involved. Title IX gets involved. But MCPS is explicitly not a crime fighting agency.[/quote]

Statistically, SROs rarely of any benefit. Both Parkland and Uvalde had SROs present and that didn't help matters.

Most experts believe they actually make things worse, and their presence escalates or increases the death toll.[/quote]

OMG stop quoting UVALDE and Parkland (those are the only two you keep mentioning) when there are tons more incidents that show how SROs have prevented and stopped violence. [/quote]

Uvalde and parkland and pretty much every other place where there was a school shooting and SROs. It made zero difference. [/quote]

100%. And this is true going back even to Columbine in 1999. There was a SRO there too.

The issue is SROs provide a false sense of security. It gives schools a pass to not actually address climate and culture issues that exacerbate violence. Yea, climate work isn’t visible like a cop or a metal detector but much more effective per the research. Oh and school climate work actually excplicitly addressees equity issues instead of making them worse like SROs do. [/quote]

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