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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.[b] Both Parkland and Uvalde had SROs present and that didn't help matters.
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Most experts believe they actually make things worse, and their presence escalates or increases the death toll.[/quote]

SROs have been criticized for not effectively addressing discipline issues and creating a negative school environment, leading to higher rates of criminalization and arrests for minor offenses, and having a limited positive impact on school safety.[/quote]

This claim has been tossed around by the anti-police politicians of Montgomery County. The fact is, only 3% of incidents handled by or reported to SROs led to arrests. The fact is that ALL MCPS HS principals wanted to keep SROs and warned about the negative implications of removing them. The fact is many many students in particular students with no role model outside the school looked to SROs as people they could turn to. The fact is they never surveyed all  students and staff who would be impacted by this change. A few politicians who don't even have kids at MCPS made this decision solely because THEY thought their opinions mattered more than the people in the schools.[/quote]

Alternatively, county officials elected by county voters (and since re-elected by those voters) made a county budget decision to discontinue funding for county police officer positions in public schools.[/quote]

And hence everything that we're seeing- the rise in crimes, drug use, and violence at the schools are a result of county voters continuing to vote for politicians who don't give a crap about MCPS staff, students, and safety. Period. [/quote]

County voters continue to vote for elected officials you don't support, for reasons you don't support.[/quote]

Actually, the problem is a bit more nuanced than that.

The county voters get re-elected due to high levels of voter apathy who believe nothing can or will ever change, so they don't bother to vote. As of now, only 51% of eligible voters turned out in the 2022 elections. Let those number get to the 60s and 70s, and you'd see different results.

The current lackluster mismanagement by elected officials who skate by on re-election with small margins is only enabled because of low voter turnout. Which is absolutely the citizens' fault, but also the fault of the system which is so dysfunctional that people decide not participating is the best choice to make since nothing will ever change anyway.[/quote]

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