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Anonymous wrote:Well the DC schools have it! Most schools have it!

Most suburban schools do not have metal detectors.

Most suburban schools didn’t remove their SROs and proudly tell the whole world that they had done so.

Most schools didn't have SROs to begin with.

https://www.nasro.org/faq/general/

They did in the DMV! For decades!

Fat lot of good it did. I remember the stabbing at WJ. Also, my former BIL’s drug addiction began at Churchill where there were multiple choices in which classmate to buy coke from.

And there is the pesky truth about the SRO program. We can always see what an SRO failed to prevent, but it is much harder to quantify the good that they do. I've worked with 4 amazing SROs throughout my career. They genuinely cared about the students and formed strong relationships. They became trusted, reliable resources and the community was grateful they were there. I witnessed one pull a knife from my student simply by calmly talking to him.

You can't tell the small but very loud anti-SRO groiup this, however.

The pesky truth about SRO programs is that they don't improve school safety but do increase the criminalization of school discipline.

The pesky truth about studies is that they don't account for the 18,000 different police departments that make them up, the different state and local laws, and the different MOUs that govern the programs. Getting more specific: when you look at studies of the full triad model, which is what we used to have, you'd see that violence decreases and drug arrests increase. When you have a reactionary model, like what we have now, violence increases.


In MCPS last year, racial disparities in arrests were actually higher after SROs removed. Explain that one.

But again, Black and brown kids are getting victimized, and nobody seems to care. People care more than Stephen Alston was arrested rather than for the victim who was shot and almost died. It's just incredible.

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Anonymous wrote:Well the DC schools have it! Most schools have it!

Most suburban schools do not have metal detectors.

Most suburban schools didn’t remove their SROs and proudly tell the whole world that they had done so.

Most schools didn't have SROs to begin with.

https://www.nasro.org/faq/general/

They did in the DMV! For decades!

Fat lot of good it did. I remember the stabbing at WJ. Also, my former BIL’s drug addiction began at Churchill where there were multiple choices in which classmate to buy coke from.

And there is the pesky truth about the SRO program. We can always see what an SRO failed to prevent, but it is much harder to quantify the good that they do. I've worked with 4 amazing SROs throughout my career. They genuinely cared about the students and formed strong relationships. They became trusted, reliable resources and the community was grateful they were there. I witnessed one pull a knife from my student simply by calmly talking to him.

You can't tell the small but very loud anti-SRO groiup this, however.

The pesky truth about SRO programs is that they don't improve school safety but do increase the criminalization of school discipline.

I disagree. I have worked in buildings with good SRO's. They improve climate.Kids build strong relationships with them. They help to diffuse situations. Go talk to kids at challenging schools. I bet the majority of them would tell you they want them there.