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[quote=Anonymous]New poster just looking for info. The news articles I see on this say 460 students over the past 3 years total were arrested when SROs were in the schools. There were concerns because about 80% of the arrested kids were Black or Hispanic while only 53% of MCPS students are members of those groups. 
So 460 kids over 3 years... with the possibility that a few were arrested more than once in those 3 yrs... in a county with, what, 170k students?
How many students have been arrested so far this year?
Have any SROs been accused of violence against a student? 
Have any dangerous incidents ended more safely because of the presence of an officer?
If police were called almost as much in the one month of September to schools than they were in all of 2019-20, are kids safer without the SROs there? Are students having nearly as much negative interaction with the police as they normally would but without the protection that a full-time SRO might offer?
I see both sides of the argument. I think we have an issue nationwide with police not being trained correctly or enough, with some terrible, tragic outcomes, particularly for people who are minorities. I also think we need to look at local conditions to assess the issue here specifically, and I want my kids (including my Blair student) to be safe.[/quote]

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