All five members of the Surry County Board of Education left an ongoing school board meeting to pay a call on the commissioners and urge them to fund the new SROs.

Source: https://s24476.pcdn.co/news/117560/police-reports-669

Denver’s police department prefers to have full-time SROs in all of the city’s comprehensive high schools, Thomas, the police chief, told the school board during Monday’s meeting.

Source: https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/11/denver-police-in-schools-resource-officers-dps-board/

However, studies on the issue aren’t clear on whether SROs do or do not prevent such incidents.

Source: https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/15/denver-reinstates-school-resource-officers/

In 2017, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation began buying and rehabilitating buildings under a different strategy: avoiding public funding while not providing service programs in an effort to prove SROs could be run more cheaply.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2023-12-28/aids-healthcare-skid-row-housing-trust-problems-homelessness

In August 2022, SROs completed a full-scale active killer training to enhance their capabilities and knowledge to rapidly and effectively respond in the event of a school threat.

Source: https://thewestsidegazette.com/fulfilling-our-promise/

Instead, the use of SROs in school reproduces unjust racialized patterns of discipline and state violence that already exists outside of our schools.

Source: https://pagosadailypost.com/2023/05/31/editorial-schools-of-choice-and-the-cost-thereof-part-five/

Northsider Lynne Crockett supports bringing back SROs.

Source: https://spokesman-recorder.com/2023/09/27/the-debate-over-police-officers-in-schools-race-matters-in-how-families-view-the-problem/

The presence of SROs in schools s BIPOC students and students with disabilities.

Source: https://truthout.org/articles/portland-took-cops-out-of-schools-in-2020-now-it-may-put-them-back/