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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since SROs are no longer in schools, then what is MCPS doing to keep schools safe?[/quote]

Restorative justice practices and more emphasis on mental health support.

Which is great. And absolutely needs to happen.

I just wish they hadn’t removed the SROs too. MoCo is the only county that removed them in Maryland, even though several others examined the issue in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.   [/quote]

What exactly would an SRO done? Pulled a gun? [/quote]
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Presence is deterrence.[/b] Nobody ever has to touch a gun.  There is far more to the spectrum of police work than an arrest/use of force.[/quote]

And yet there were fights at my kid's high school with the SRO. I guess you could respond, But just think of how many more fights there would have been, if there hadn't been an SRO!

I don't know when it became standard to expect a police officer in each high school, but it wasn't always like that, and it doesn't have to be like that.[/quote]

It was as part of the Clinton era community policing program which gave federal finds to high schools as a pilot program (among other grants to get cops out of their cars and back into communities).   The goal was to prevent violence by est sloshing a more visible police presence in communities and to enable communities to establish bonds with officers that would lead to increased communication and trust on both sides.[/quote]
 
And we all know the Clinton police/prison programs were a failure and caused more problems. So did “just say no”.[/quote]

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