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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know about this SRO thinge. It really didn't do much good at Parkland or Uvalde.[/quote]

RJ is not SRO.  If there were more SRO's maybe some of this could be prevented.  You are using two incidents.  Many more where SRO's did good.[/quote]

At Parkland and Uvalde, when an armed assailant was present, the SROs just ran away. [/quote]

every real incident shows they make schools less safe.[/quote]

Google is your friend. Plenty of positive stories too. [/quote]

For every 1000 absolute disaster like Parkland or Uvalde there may be 1 nice story somewhere but its so rare and isolated it hardly matters[/quote]

Not all good or bad make the news.  You need a new talking point and stop risking the safety of our kids. [/quote]

The ones that are significant do and it's always bad news because SROs don't work and it's been shown they make schools less safe.[/quote]

It actually has not. I've read the literature on this, and the results are pretty consistent.

The downsides of SROs are:

[b]Students of color feel less safe[/b], while white and Asian students feel safer.

There are more arrests in schools, and those arrests disproportionately fall on students of color

Note that neither of these things actually mean schools are less safe, but they are why SROs were phased out in MCPS in 2020. Now, the question is whether those downsides are significant enough to compensate for a decrease in safety in schools. [/quote]

This is not true. Prince George's County, which is overwhelmingly majority black, just affirmed its stance on keeping SROs. You can't keep peddling this lie.

The fact that SOME black and Hispanic students say they dislike or feel uncomfortable having police in schools does not mean ALL or even the MAJORITY of black and Hispanic students feel that way!

DCPS has also found the same thing! They took SROs out and now the community is asking for them back, and DCPS, like PGCPS, is overwhelmingly black![/quote]

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