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Obviously we're on our way to reinstatement of SROs in schools, and thank goodness for that. I'll never understand people who wanted to defund police, etc. I'm all for left-wing policies, but only when they actually make sense. [b]If you want to address racism in law enforcement, you make make police academies MORE selective, and you lure in smarter candidates with more attractive pay (same method if you want to increase teaching standards).The dumb people will never react well in crisis situations regardless of the training they get! You can't staff such positions with the poorly-paid and the ones without critical thinking skills, and then act surprised that they're incompetent.[/b]

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Good luck achieving this with the police academies in the hands of the existing police force.[/quote]

+1 To keep this close to home, look at the caes of the officers caught on camera abusing a 5 year-old child inside an MCPS school last year. No accountability. No repercussions. Nothing but a blue wall protecting bad cops from ever seeing their actions have consequences.

As long as the entire structure of policing continues to protect abusive cops, none of the changes listed above will ever happen. Except giving them more money, because rewarding abusive cops is the American Way (tm). [/quote]

MCPD is filled with very good officers. It’s a strong police department. Yes, those two officers were in the wrong. Guess what? A lot of MCPD agrees. Instead of falling back on old arguments, I recommend you get to know current policing. Fortunately, there are a couple avenues through which you can do that. Request a ride-along. Attend the citizens’ academy. Instead of falling back on preconceived notions, get to know the department. They are out in the community and sponsor regular events. [/quote]

There are good and bad employees in any workplace. I would say the good outweigh the bad in MCPD. SROs are the best of the best. Our SRO had been in our school for over a decade. She interacted with students to give them a smile. She knew students by name - not because they were in trouble but because she would take more time than the principal to have conversations with the students. [/quote]

Yeah. I don’t want my kid interacting with police unless it is mandatory. I can see that you don’t understand it. You might reflect on the fact that your refusal to understand it is part of why there are no SROs in schools now.[/quote]
we don't have SROs anymore in MCPS because of uber progressives and Elrich.  Most Principals, and probably teachers, want SROs.

Elrich doesn't walk the school halls and interact with the kids everyday. When there is a violent students at school, Elrich is not the one responsible. The Principals are, and they want SROs, who were just one tools in the shed that could be used to de-escalate a situation in school.

What he did is the height of irresponsibility.  It's like at work when the higher ups make decisions that are politically motivated, and the rest of us have to deal with the fallout and cleanup the mess.  It's a crap situation for those with "boots on the ground".  They  hamstrung the Principals -- take away SROs but at the same time figure out a way to not have to suspend URM kids.  How does Elrich propose that to happen?  Oh, he doesn't know.. he's not a school administrator?  No, he's not, so he shouldn't be making those kidns of decisions. Leave it to the Principals who lead the schools and who are the ones responsible for the kids' safety.

Elrich needs to keep his nose out of the schools.[/quote]

Yes, I understand that you literally cannot comprehend why parents of “URM kids”—who are close to the majority in MoCo—don’t want police in schools. You can keep re-showing how you don’t understand if you want to.[/quote]

Maybe if you taught your kid to view interacting with SRO's as a positive opportunity, we would all be better off. 
instead you keep playing the paranoid victim in a community that is majority minority. Good luch with that
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I am not going to be teaching my kid to accept the continual presence of armed representatives of the state as normal. Thanks anyway.[/quote]

But it is normal. We have police everywhere.  You want to make no-go zones like France. Well who suffers the most then? Marginalized communities. Wealthy people can create their own public safety. [/quote]

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