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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My crystal ball says an SRO would have prevented this tragedy.  Yours says otherwise.  The truth is, we'll never know.[/quote]

An SRO has never prevented a tragedy.[/quote]

Wrong. I’m a high school teacher who has witnessed a tragedy being averted by an SRO. I had a student with a huge knife, which he brought to school to threaten/hurt another. The SRO talked him down and retrieved the knife.

So yes, it happens. We just don’t advertise it when it does. [/quote]

I don't doubt that some SROs have done good, even averting incidents.

But OP and others seem to be asserting that the presence of an SRO would have prevented this specific tragedy, and that SROs overall are a net good for the school environment, justifying the cost and negative effects.  Neither of those things has proven to be true.[/quote]

They also haven’t proven to be false.

My response was to the comment above, that “an SRO has never prevented a tragedy.” That simply isn’t true. [/quote]

See: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/304291.pdf

“  research evidence does not, as a whole, yield support for school policing as an effective strategy to improve safety and security.”[/quote]

That link has a lot of recommendations in order to increase the effectiveness of an SRO program, most of which were already in place when the county Exec pulled SROs from the schools against the universal recommendations from principals to keep them.

That’s the problem with using national data when addressing local concerns. Our officers were already held to much higher standards than officers in other jurisdictions. [/quote]

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