Addressing The Presence of School Resource Officers In Schools

With many school districts starting back the topic of school policing remains difficult and contested from viral videos of police and student encounters gone wrong, to a seeming surge in violence that’s causing some districts to consider adding more cops in schools, to perennial fears about school shootings. The National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) indicates that officers play a tripartite role in law enforcement, informal mentoring and counseling, and some in-person teaching. In this sense, the theory of school-based policing is aligned with that of community policing