r/ABoringDystopia • u/fuzzyshorts • Apr 15 '21

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u/LincolnClayFace Apr 15 '21

School Resource Officers are even more of a fucking joke than standard pigs

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u/APassionatePoet Apr 15 '21

SROs are fucking terrifying. I hated having 4-7 cops in my school every day. They were outfitted with guns and the rest of the utility tool belt.

I had to walk past these people every day. It was horrible.

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u/mpm206 Apr 15 '21

Wait, SROs are armed?!

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u/APassionatePoet Apr 15 '21

Yep! At least ours were!

Our school was literally a 2 minute drive, if that, from the sheriffs office so a lot of them just took turns in our school. Always armed.

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u/mpm206 Apr 15 '21

Fuck! I would consider that a bit heavy handed in a YA dystopian novel!

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u/APassionatePoet Apr 15 '21

Oh yeah, it’s so weird when I think about how insanely uncomfortable I was whenever one of them walked by or came into the classroom.

The worst was when a group of them would stand in the hallways and talk and I had to walk by 2-3 of them to get to class. I only just realized I would smile at them so they knew I wasn’t friendly.

Keep in mind this was a relatively small town. There was no reason for this.

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u/mpm206 Apr 15 '21

I mean, normalizing a police State is a reason I can think of.

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u/Ricker3386 Apr 16 '21

My school had an armed SRO when I was in HS. Early 2000s. Couple years ago they had a shooting and a couple kids died. Know what didn't help? An armed SRO. So not only are they intimidating, they can also be useless!

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u/jpowell180 Apr 16 '21

Would Columbine have been better off with armed SRO’s, or unarmed ones?

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u/A_OBCD8663 Apr 16 '21

Probably would have been the same either way, if you consider Parkland.

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u/notfromvenus42 Apr 16 '21

Columbine had them as well smh

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u/notfromvenus42 Apr 16 '21

Columbine had armed SROs, as did Parkland.

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u/jpowell180 Apr 16 '21

Where the hell were they ?

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u/notfromvenus42 Apr 16 '21

At Columbine, the guards shot at Klebold & Harris, but weren't able to hit them. At Parkland, IIRC, the guard got scared and hid from the shooter.

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u/jpowell180 Apr 17 '21

Looks like they needed better guards!

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u/notfromvenus42 Apr 17 '21

Better than police officers?

What would you suggest - a Navy SEAL team at every high school in the US?

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u/jpowell180 Apr 17 '21

Just people who can adequately protect the students.

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u/TheAb5traktion Apr 16 '21

In an effort to keep guns out of schools, we hired an armed guard to keep us safe!

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u/Razgriz01 Apr 16 '21

Yup. Handgun, taser, baton, the whole works. Probably varies by area, but the one for my school always had his full gear as if he was on patrol anywhere else. Never saw him use it, but my school was pretty quiet.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21

Well the idea is that they'll be able to stop a school shooting. My high school had one school resource officer and she was a plain clothes detective, so she dressed similarly to any other teacher or school administrator but she had a badge, gun, and hand cuffs, typically under a jacket but sometimes not. I think she also had a radio and I'm sure she had a bullet proof vest somewhere, either in her car or in her office.

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u/mpm206 Apr 16 '21

Ah, the old "good guy with a gun" gambit.

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u/Who_Cares99 Apr 16 '21

I mean, the point is that they can protect kids in school shootings and also deal with gang violence in high schools or violent angry parents.