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Police that work with SRO's and know how useless the program is.[/quote]
Only criminals and anti-cops believe this.[/quote]

No actually people who actually understand the program think that.

Take the SRO's, make the ones that have no degree get one in psychology or education and pay for it, take away arrest powers and make them live under the same code of conduct at teachers.

SROs should only be involved in life saving events. They should not be glorified security guards, they should not be sitting in a room eating donuts, they should not be harassing kids for minor things that teachers can handle and principals should deal with.

If they can't do the minimum to be around kids they don't belong in schools.

They take washed up cops or ones that are not effective on the street or can't be trusted and they throw them in this program. Do not just take washups, recruit for this position, train for this position... act like it's not a second thought.[/quote]

It is clear you know nothing about the SRO program. I’m curious whether you’ve even had any interaction with an SRO. The council has done a beautiful job smearing the program. In reality, the SROs play a vital role in the school. They are not glorified security guards. (I should know. I worked for a long time in a school with both.)

You act as if SROs are poorly trained and/or should be feared. You are wrong. They are trained police. Outside of schools, the vast majority of police interactions contain absolutely no use of force… like close to 99% of interactions. And within schools? Even less. In Montgomery County during the 2019-2020 school year, they initiated only nine arrests county-wide. Just nine. They are NOT a threat to students. The data doesn’t back that up. People who know… like 100% of principals… know the value the SRO has to the school. If you still have concerns, particularly if/when they are reinstated, try talking to the school and the SRO. I suspect you’ll find that your concerns are unfounded.
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You know SRO’s are not required to have a 4year degree. You wouldn’t even allow a teacher to teach with that little education.

They are very poorly trained. They have no training for dealing with kids . If you think the 2-4 week training is “education” you should sit in on that too.

It’s not a use of fired issue and the fact you don’t know the difference Seuss means you need to educate yourself. Please read some scholarly articles and research on these programs.[/quote]

They are required to have 30 college credits. 
But the thinking of "I don't like the job requirements so throw the baby out with the bathwater" is just dumb.
If you don't feel like They get enough training then lobby for more.

They don't have enough training therefor we don't need them is illogical. [/quote]

I didn’t say “we don’t need them” I said reinstating the same mess we had before again is another knee jerk reaction. How about we actually hire trained people to keep kids safe instead of people that did 30 gen ed credits at their community college.[/quote]

(Sorry for the bad quote job above…responding to last PP):  it’s an interesting idea but I don’t know how practical it is.  I’m imaginging a subdivision of MCPS that has LEO training and is certified under the state certification process for LEO; they’d likely have to be trained at the MCPD police academy but then would have additional training requirements through MCPS and maybe could do in-service jointly with MCPD on continuing LEO training?  But they would be hired specifically into a MCPD police force, which would require an undergraduate degree in a relevant field, demonstrated background in working with kids, no prior criminal history, etc.?  It’s an interesting idea but I think it would be challenging to put together and I’m not sure anyone would apply.  Consider police applications are almost non-existent and teacher applications are also way down, where would we find the people for this job? I just don’t see it.[/quote]

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