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[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]

How can you look at an article about comphrehensive top-to-bottom corruption and say there is "some fixing" to do? How about the police undertake real reforms, introduce accountability for abusive cops, and rebuild community trust, and then we can discuss letting them around our kids again.

I mean, despite the national mood, I honestly think the tipping point for MCPS was that video of a police officer verbally abusing a 5 year-old in an MCPS school last year. If the police had held bad cops accountable right then, and worked to rebuild trust in the impacted communities, I don't think SROs would be gone today.

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