Replies to post #277812 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[BullNBear52]

Where did the kid get the gun from? Or does that not matter.

[fuagf]

Initial thought was - Does every school have an armed resource officer as apparently this one had present at the time?

https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/03/21/01/00/maryland-great-mills-high-school-shooting-reports

I don't know if that officer is permanent. In all the chat about having armed police in schools this is the first time i've seen or heard of them.

The first documented SRO was placed in a school in Flint, Michigan in 1953. School.[4] However, the topic was not broadly discussed until 1968, when the Fresno, California Police Department looked to the school resource officer program as a tool to “revitalize its image in the eyes of its youth”.[4] This early adaptation of the program involved placing plainclothes officers in the middle and elementary schools to foster a relationship between the local police department and the youth, which continues to be a goal of the program.[4] Since the 1970s, the role of SROs has shifted from mentorship/education to crime prevention and law enforcement.[5] In the 1980s-90s, SROs facilitated crime prevention programs, such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) and Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.).[5] From the mid-1970s to 2008, the number of schools with police stationed on campus rose from approximately 1 percent to 40 percent."[6] In many states SROs are the main enforcers and interpreters of the states' school disturbance laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_resource_officer#United_States

So what the hell is Trump yelling about having armed people in schools when according to that some 40% had them in 2008? And why hasn't this point been more
in the news over the last couple of years? What percentage of schools have an armed resource officer (who apparently is a sworn law enforcement officer) now?