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[quote=Anonymous]I met an SRO once who had a girl tell him her dad had killed his gf and was keeping the body in their basement.  She didn’t know who else to tell but trusted the SRO.  Good SROs hear things from kids.  A kid knows they can go to an SRO and say “I heard that Larlo and Tarlo have a beef in the bathroom at lunch but you didn’t hear it from me” and know the SRO won’t have to give up their name—a school counselor might and also probably wouldn’t know how to stop a fight between two kids that are really dangerous.

I 100% agree that they should have more training.  All cops should have more training, especially in things that go beyond firearms.  Most cops do want more training.  Believe it or not most want to do their jobs better and have fewer negative and dangerous interactions with the community.  They really don’t want to be hated.  Police departments are so incredibly understaffed — and the top tier is often lacking in imagination—that no one has time/energy to put in training.  I’d so much rather see a movement to professionalize thr PD rather than defund it.

I also feel like we need a community decision about what SROs should do.  If we don’t want the SROs to worry about misdemeanors like drug possession, we should just tell them that.  I don’t really know where we are as a community on things like teen drug possession, but as a community it’s up to us to determine what the laws should be and how they should be enforced.  Don’t blame the SROs if we tell them we want kids arrested for pot possession, and then they arrest kids for pot possssion (which it does NOT sound like they do.)

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