{"id":1304562,"date":"2022-02-16T22:07:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T03:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1304562"},"modified":"2022-02-16T22:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T03:07:46","slug":"report-school-resource-officers-reinstated-across-the-u-s-as-crime-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-school-resource-officers-reinstated-across-the-u-s-as-crime-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: School Resource Officers Reinstated Across the U.S. as Crime Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-school-resource-officers-reinstated-across-the-u-s-as-crime-surges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1304562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>During the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement in 2020, school resource officers were pulled from schools and budgets were cut. As crime continues to surge two years later, schools are bringing officers back to boost safety, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/defund-the-police-return-school-resource-officers.amp\">reported<\/a> Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think what you\u2019re seeing and the reaction from these school districts is exactly what we\u2019re seeing in almost every major city in this country: Everybody\u2019s having buyer\u2019s remorse for defunding the police,\u201d Fraternal Order of Police National Vice President Joe Gamaldi told the outlet.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWe had 16 American cities last year have their highest murder rates in recorded history, and now people are quickly backtracking and realizing that police officers provide safety in our communities,\u201d he continued<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The report pointed to Montgomery County, Maryland, which started this school year without school resource officers (SROs) for the first time since 2002. Schools replaced SROs with \u201ccommunity engagement officers.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The report continues:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>In the first four months of class, a staggering <\/span><span>1,688 911 calls were made<\/span>.&nbsp;<span>All in all, there have been 102 sex assaults, 87 assaults, 82 school threats, 76 controlled substance incidents, 57 weapon-related incidents, 57 conflicts, 35 mental health incidents, 28 property crimes and four robberies between August and February in the schools, <\/span><span>7News <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/crisis-in-the-classrooms\/montgomery-county-public-schools-school-police-resource-officers-community-engagement-crime-stabbing-shooting-assault\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Following a shooting at Magruder High School on Jan.21, \u201cwhich intensified calls from the community to get police back on campus.\u201d The district is working on bringing back more officers, though they will not have as many as before.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Alexandra, Virginia has been grappling with a similar dynamic, according to the outlet. The school district was \u201crocked by a spate of violent fights\u201d at the beginning of the school year. Some in the community reportedly blamed the Alexandria City Council for voting to eliminate SROs in 2021.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17019422\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/protesters-defund-the-police-blm-protest-oct2020file-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17019422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/protesters-defund-the-police-blm-protest-oct2020file-ap.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo a protester holds a sign that reads &quot;Defund Police&quot; during a rally for the late George Floyd outside Barclays Center in New York. Some police organizations and Republican politicians are blaming Democrats and last year&#039;s defund the police effort for a troubling rise in homicides in many cities across the country. The increases are real, and some cities did make modest cuts to police spending. But the claims by Republicans overlook the fact homicides are up in many cities, including ones that increased police spending or have Republican mayors. (AP Photo\/John Minchillo, File)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo a protester holds a sign that reads \u201cDefund Police\u201d during a rally for the late George Floyd outside Barclays Center in New York. Some police organizations and Republican politicians are blaming Democrats and last year\u2019s defund the police effort for a troubling rise in homicides in many cities across the country. (AP Photo\/John Minchillo, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cOur students are sending us warning shots, literally warning shots,\u201d Alexandria City High School principal&nbsp;<\/span><span>Peter Balas said during an October meeting about SROs. \u201cPlease reconsider this. My staff, my students. We\u2019re not OK.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Soon after, the city council voted to temporarily bring SROs back through the end of the 2022 school year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In California, the Pomona Unified School Board defunded its school police, only to have them return four months later after a 12-year-old was injured in a shooting near Pomona High School.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cTo law enforcement officials who work as school resources officers, such as Rudy Perez, the vice president of the National Association of School Resource Officers, the job is \u2018really not about being a cop.\u2019 It\u2019s instead \u2018truly about being part of that ecosystem that you can address the safety issues, concerns that parents have, that teachers have,&#8217;\u201d the report states.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI can honestly tell you as a campus law enforcement officer, it was more 90% \u2026 managing tension and figuring out problem-solving. Ten percent of it was really enforcement,\u201d Perez told Fox News.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Democrats and activists who supported the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement argued at the time that SROs were more likely to discipline or arrest black and Hispanic students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWith the uprisings and the recent events that happened over the past year, students just don\u2019t want to be greeted with police officers when they come back,\u201d Amir Whitaker with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California, <\/span><span>told the <em>LA Times<\/em> last summer<\/span><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><span>\u201cEducators acknowledge that the fight to remove school police is part of the fight for racial justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>President of the Fraternal Order of Police National Patrick Yoes told Fox News that the main job of SROs is to boost safety in schools, \u201c[tear] down walls, [build] relationships with kids,\u201d and provide \u201claw-related education.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI worked 36 years in law enforcement, and of that 36 years, I served as a resource officer at a high school in Louisiana. And I will tell you that bar none, it was the best job I\u2019ve ever had because I went to work each day feeling like I was actually doing something and I could feel that I was having an impact,\u201d Yoes said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement in 2020, school resource officers were pulled from schools and budgets were cut. 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