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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
[b]A stabbing is way more of a negative consequence than "feeling bad"[/b].  We can't have cops everywhere, but we did have SROs in the HS, which the Principals of the schools wanted to keep, the people who actually work in the schools and interact with kids.  Even if the odds are low that the SRO stops a stabbing, I'd rather have the SRO in the school than night.  One, because they can respond faster, and two, it is more of a deterent than not having an SRO.

Jawando, you and the progressives in the city council aren't in the schools everyday dealing with the kids.

I'll ask again, why did the Principal feel that cops needed to be there today, maybe tomorrow? Because it's a deterent, and maybe, it makes the kids and staff there feel safer.[/quote]

This. Sadly, some people do think people’s feelings are more important than physical safety. [/quote]
More fights end with a hug than with a knife or a gun.  It's true..... Look it up.[/quote]
No one wants a cop around until they do.   Did these kids end up hugging it out?  Doesn't seem like it.  If an SRO is there and can make them hug it out in all instances, I'm all for it.

Also, I went to a really tough HS.  We had fights everyday at school, sometimes multiple.  I wish we had SROs in my HS back then.  We had security guards who were jumped and ended up in the hospital.[/quote]

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