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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you want a police officer patrolling your street and your street only every day? What exactly would be their role when no crimes are being committed? I am perfectly happy to be able to call the police when they are needed, I don't want them here proactively, that's a waste of taxpayer dollars and needless police surveillance of my life.[/quote]
Yes, I would be perfectly happy to have the cops around.  What's the saying.. "where's a cop when you need one". Here's the thing.. you don't know when you will need the cops. And as we've seen, kids are turning violent in our schools. You don't know when the next incident will happen.

I'm proactive. You'd rather be reactive and only act when someone's been stabbed. I sincerely hope that never happens to your child.

I see on nextdoor a lot of posts about car breakins in the middle of the night in certain areas.  You know what would help, if the cops were patrolling that area every night.  It's called a deterent.  It works well. When there are cops on the roads, people tend to not break the law, speed. When there are no cops on the roads, people tend to do all kinds of illegal things, and there are more speeders.[/quote]

You can't have cops everywhere, and having cops in schools "proactively" has known negative impacts on students. Even if you put the one cop back in the 3000-student high school the odds they can stop a stabbing is incredibly low. [/quote]

This is like a broken record, yet it shows that we do need SROs to mitigate serious issues like these at school.  Why can’t we both have SRO and whatever other resources Jawando suggested to out in place?  Both can have good active roles. [/quote]

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