{"id":875005,"date":"2021-10-13T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=875005"},"modified":"2021-10-13T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:44:30","slug":"free-for-all-virginia-school-district-seeing-student-fights-after-city-removed-resource-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/free-for-all-virginia-school-district-seeing-student-fights-after-city-removed-resource-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Free-For-All\u2019: Virginia School District Seeing Student Fights After City Removed Resource Officers"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ffree-for-all-virginia-school-district-seeing-student-fights-after-city-removed-resource-officers%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=875005&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>In May, as part of Democrats\u2019 \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement, the Alexandria, Virginia, city council voted to remove school resource officers (SRO), promising to replace them with mental health counselors.<\/p>\n<p>Counselors were never hired, however, and parents and teachers are now blaming an increase in student violence on the decision to remove police from schools, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/alexandria-virginia-schools-removed-resource-officers-fights?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=news_tab&amp;utm_content=algorithm\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Rohrbach, the mother of a 14-year-old daughter at Alexandria City High School, <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/features\/i-team\/shocking-video-of-alexandria-school-violence-reignites-conversation-about-school-resource-officers?fbclid=IwAR31AVLcwhLGiAPeT0sYAoeVTga1DHLiCrmoOPM4qUCN-6ZadGxp8VfQp_E\">told<\/a> ABC7 that she was shocked by videos that have been posted online showing students kicking, punching, and even stomping classmates and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I watch these videos, I would say my reaction is shock, complete shock,\u201d Rohrbach said of the videos. She added that she believed the violence would be reduced if police were back on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re willing to compromise. We\u2019re looking to work together. We\u2019re not trying to insist that our way is the only way,\u201d she said. \u201c\u201dI think not having [school resource officers] there has made it, I hate to say, almost a free-for-all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From ABC7:<\/p>\n<p><em>Many parents and teachers believe the uptick in violence coincides with the Alexandria City Council\u2019s decision last May to remove School Resource Officers and reallocate the $800,000 in funding to hire mental health professionals. The SROs were released in the beginning of the 2021 school term, yet, so far, no counselors have been hired.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The SROs are police officers, armed and in uniform, who are specifically trained to work in the schools with students. They patrol school property and respond to any threats or disturbances. They also make arrests where criminal acts are involved. But some social justice organizations say they do more harm than good.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The recent violence, however, may be an indicator that the resource officers are needed.<\/p>\n<p>Damon Minnix, a police officer in Alexandria and president of the Southern States Benevolent Association, told the outlet that SRO\u2019s promote safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWherever you have a police officer, safety tends to follow,\u201d he told ABC7.<\/p>\n<p>The news outlet obtained police reports that is said showed violence was occurring in schools even with SROS, but a source in the police department told the outlet those reports didn\u2019t include about half the incidents, which were resolved without any arrests. When the outlet showed the reports to Minnix, he informed them that having SROs can keep incidents from escalating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, for all crimes, you know that the faster you can arrive on scene, the more likely you are to stop it from becoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, as part of Democrats\u2019 \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement, the Alexandria, Virginia, city council voted to remove school resource officers (SRO), promising to replace them with mental health counselors.Counselors were never hired, however, and parents and teachers are now blaming an increase in student violence on the decision to remove police from schools, Fox News reported.Jennifer Rohrbach, the mother of a 14-year-old daughter at Alexandria City High School, told ABC7 that she was shocked by videos that have been posted online showing students kicking, punching, and even stomping classmates and teachers.\u201cWhen I watch these videos, I would say my reaction is shock, complete shock,\u201d Rohrbach said of the videos. She added that she believed the violence would be reduced if police were back on campus.\u201cWe\u2019re willing to compromise. We\u2019re looking to work together. We\u2019re not trying to insist that our way is the only way,\u201d she said. \u201c\u201dI think not having [school resource officers] there has made it, I hate to say, almost a free-for-all.\u201dFrom ABC7:Many parents and teachers believe the uptick in violence coincides with the Alexandria City Council\u2019s decision last May to remove School Resource Officers and reallocate the $800,000 in funding to hire mental health professionals. The SROs were released in the beginning of the 2021 school term, yet, so far, no counselors have been hired.The SROs are police officers, armed and in uniform, who are specifically trained to work in the schools with students. They patrol school property and respond to any threats or disturbances. They also make arrests where criminal acts are involved. But some social justice organizations say they do more harm than good.The recent violence, however, may be an indicator that the resource officers are needed.Damon Minnix, a police officer in Alexandria and president of the Southern States Benevolent Association, told the outlet that SRO\u2019s promote safety.\u201cWherever you have a police officer, safety tends to follow,\u201d he told ABC7.The news outlet obtained police reports that is said showed violence was occurring in schools even with SROS, but a source in the police department told the outlet those reports didn\u2019t include about half the incidents, which were resolved without any arrests. When the outlet showed the reports to Minnix, he informed them that having SROs can keep incidents from escalating.\u201cWell, for all crimes, you know that the faster you can arrive on scene, the more likely you are to stop it from becoming more serious,\u201d\u00a0Minnix told the outlet.Gregory C. Hutchings Jr., Alexandria\u2019s superintendent of schools, went to a city council meeting to implore them to reinstate SROs.\u201cI\u2019m pleading with the City Council this evening that we reinstate our school resource officers immediately,\u201d\u00a0Hutchings said.Rohrbach said that even with Hutchings\u2019 support, schools have not been transparent about the violence problem and have even lashed out at parents for bringing it up.\u201cThey chastised the parents, such as myself, for advocating for our students. And again, it all goes back to one thing, safe schools for all students,\u201d Rohrbach told ABC7.In May, the city council voted to remove the SROS and reallocate $800,000 in funding to hire mental health counselors, who were never hired.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}