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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not that I'm the staunchest supporter of the Bring Back SROs campaign, but it's worth noting that DCPS and the City Council are doing a 180 and going back to the SRO model after pledging to phase them out a few years earlier, which was similar to MoCo: https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-school-resource-officers-sros-city-council-reviewing-students-schools-crime-youth-violence-teens-washington-carjackings-shootings-police-mpd-safe-amendment-act-2023-trayon-white-vincent-gray-brooke-pinto-phil-mendelson-dmv#

Soooo....yeah. The talking point that SROs are unpopular and unwanted doesn't really hold water.

Too often, people want to run with policies that only work in an ideal state. Unfortunately, human beings aren't predictable and not always good. Security and safety have to be there to account for and protect for those instances.[/quote]

That's odd since every study shows they're more of a liability to student safety. It's not like they did much good at Parkland or Uvalde when present for the student massacres, but if people would rather their taxes pay for bathroom attendants than teachers, then by all means...[/quote]
You keep bringing up two incidents that aren't related to MCPS, and make broad generalizations about SROs. It's like making a generalization based on a few bad apples of, oh, let's say black kids doing bad things in MCPS, so let's just all assume those kids are bad. Right?

MCPS study on SROs was inconclusive; there were some pros and cons that they found. They wanted to continue the study but the Progressives like Elrich pulled the plug on the SRO funding before MCPS could complete their internal study.

DCPS is bringing back SROs; much of their leadership are black.  MCPS needs to follows and bring back SROs.  Bringing in more teachers isn't going to stop the uptick in violence or drug use in the bathrooms.   Maybe if those kids went to class instead of doing drugs in the bathrooms, their grades would go up.   [/quote]

DCPS is NOT bringing back SROs. It's a proposal that will likely not pass.

Why are you insisting that although SROs have been shown to be ineffective elsewhere that this isn't applicable to MCPS?[/quote]
MCPS initial study actually was not conclusive. It pointed to pros and cons.  And, all Principals want  SROs.

Why do you insist on mentioning incidents that did not occur in MCPS? Furthermore, that was two negative incidents out of how many where SROs were involved?

How is having a metal detector, which is something the county wants to look at,  any better than having an SRO, who can build relationships with students?

No study is conclusive, and MCPS never even got to complete their own study.  But, they used the below studies as a starting point. That study doesn't indicate either way whether SROs are a negative or a positive; rather, it suggests there are pros and cons and needs further study and evaluation. But, that never happened because Progressives pulled the plug before the study could be done. What were they afraid of? That the study wouldn't support their narrative?

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

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