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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please go watch last night's episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and learn a little more about why SROs not only don't work but cause harm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgwqQGvYt0g[/quote]

The above piece provides an excellent overview of the impact of SROs.

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SROs can be effective but only if they are trained correctly. This is the same argument about "defund the police".

If your neighborhood is riddled with crime what do you do?  Do you just live with it, get a gun, put up barbed wire around your house?     Would you feel less or more safe with the presence of cops who were trained and vetted properly?[/quote]

Anyone can be effective if trained correctly. Having more people with guns in schools is a bad idea.[/quote]
yes,  having students with guns in school is a bad idea, but it happens, so having cops with guns in school is a valid deterrent.  Or are you suggesting that Principals carry the gun?

Someone posted.."would you bring a knife to a gun fight"?  
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The data indicates it isn't at all in fact rarely has it been a deterrent and more often has resulted in greater casualties.[/quote]
MCPS memo suggests otherwise. Section titled "Evidence Supporting School Resource Officer Programs"

https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/C2S2RR727C3F/$file/SRO%20Program%20210511.pdf[/quote]

From the same memo:

"According to Schlosser (2014), schools with a regular police presence were 18% more likely to experience a violent incident and 13% more likely to experience a serious violent incident than schools without a regular police presence."[/quote]

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