Schools are putting more cops on campus to stop mass shooters—despite the 'abject failure' in Uvalde
will need to be hired before August to accommodate a new state law that requires there to be an SRO on every K-12 campus in the state. And the National Association of School Resource Officers , which trains school-based officers, is“every school at every level” to have a trained school resource officer on campus whenever school is in session.
But the trend of putting more armed police officers on campuses in response to school shootings has come even though it’s not clear that the presence of an SRO makes a mass shooting on campus less likely. And the latest push comesUvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo, third from left, stands during a news conference outside of the Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas Thursday, May 26, 2022.
“The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” McCraw said Tuesday. “The officers had weapons; the children had none. The officers had body armor; the children had none. The officers had training; the subject had none.”
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