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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lot of pushback on this thread to the idea that there might be more wrong with American policing than a few bad apples, which means we are talking past each other.

For those who think that police institutions are fine, and there are no systemic issues, I'd invite you to read this article or scroll through this Twitter thread. It paints a picture of a culture of corruption across the culture, and a culture that has gone terribly terribly wrong. Note that this is a real, investigative piece and they found hundreds of cases of systemic corruption. The "good cops" were pushed out of the departments, while only the bad cops remained to protect one another.

https://twitter.com/BrettMmurphy/status/1458082591144304651?s=20

I share this because that's how some of us have long seen the police, and if you see them in this light, it's really hard to accept giving them casual access to your children because you know that any wrong-doing will be covered up and there will be zero accountability. [/quote]

Yes. There's some fixing to do with policing. My point is the county should have looked at the data in THIS county and assess it before making major decisions that could impact the safety of all students especially coming from a disastrous pandemic year when a large number of students were isolated at home. Do this before dismantling a long-standing program that was unanimously supported by ALL HS principals; a program that has NO evidence of significantly arresting students. In fact, the  DATA shows just the opposite. Only 3% of arrests were initiated by SROs at MCPS. [/quote]
+1 Some people want to make decisions based on data, except when they don't.

The people making the decision aren't even in the schools.  They sit in their cushy offices and make decisions that impact those who are actually doing the work everyday.

[b]Not one anti-SRO person has answered the question of why Principals, those who interact with the students day in and day out, want SROs.[/b].  Why did the Blair Principal want the cops there?

Why don't some of you anti-SRO people volunteer as "security guards" in the HSs and see for yourself what Principals and staff have to deal with everyday.[/quote]
It's been answered over and over. Principals can duck ownership of the problem kids by handing it off to MCPD.[/quote]

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