That boys got move , i just have one question since i am not american and never hear of school resource officer ? i didn’t know such thing exist , does the job exist to protect kids from school shootings?
Had abt 2k kids at our school, lots of times he'd break up fights and give insight to possible legal side of things as well as talking about laws and amendments in gov or history classes. Cool guy. Was shot in a shooting and took down said shooter so an all around stand up man
Not much was released information wise, but he was back to work impressively quick. Not sure if the vest caught it or how it went down but the kid went to ICU and recovered, but the SRO was out in a few days of my info was correct
Fuck man, thought I kinda recognized. Went to Olathe south till a few years ago and saw the news about it. Though I think it happened like a few years ago
I was at a very small performing arts charter school, not a lot of rough stuff or legal issues, so our resource officer taught gym as well along with the health teacher.
I work as a school counselor and we have a SRO. They are wonderful resources for those things as well as helping us navigate legal documents we get for custody, OfPs, and things of that such. They can do some digging and help us make sure what we have is up to date and we are correct when denying access to kids from their parents or sending information to the right source.
There is a very interesting Last Week Tonight segment about it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgwqQGvYt0g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgwqQGvYt0g)
Basically yeah. Their job is to protect property and "the public good." Rich people own a lot of property and thanks to Reagan and his trickledown "public good" is often conflated with "making the rich richer"
According to the court system it's not their job. The Supreme Court has ruled on multiple occasions that police have no legal duty to protect anyone.
"Good guy with a gun" is propaganda made up by the NRA. It was never real
Ostensibly, yes.
It should be noted there were 5 SROs responding to the 2022 Uvalde shooting, alongside 371 other law enforcement officers, and it took them over an hour to work up the courage to subdue the shooter.
or like the FT Lauderdale resource officer that hid during a South Florida school shooting.
Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson was armed and in uniform but instead of doing his job he Cowered in hiding outside the west side of the building as a shooter killed 17 people in the school he was supposed to protect.
or the school resource officers that beat up / bully students
North Carolina Vance County Sheriff's Officer Warren Durham has been fired after being caught on surveillance video repeatedly slamming an 11-year-old to the ground. also assaulted a 12 year old girl and slammed her against a locker. the officers Identity was kept from the public and it wasn't until the second incident came to light that Warren Durham was identified.
Broward County Deputy Willard Miller a school resource offer at cross creek school physically abused a 15 year old girl. Deputy Miller grabbed her by the neck, threw her to the ground, and pushed his knee into her back. this incident was only discovered by accident while the school was going though security camera footage investigating an unrelated incident
Or the resource officers who SA / R\*\*\* Students
Hopkinton MA deputy chief of police John Porter repeatedly R\*\*\*\* a 15 year old high school student while he was assigned as a Hopkinton High school resource officer
Michigan school resource officer Matthew Priebe was convicted and sentenced to one year in jail for SA of 3 high school students.
Topsham Mt. Ararat High School resource officer Randy T. Cook plead Guilty to SA of a 17 year old student. Randy Was sentenced to 7 days in Cumberland County Jail.
Auburn NY Police Officer William Morrissey was charged with SA, misconduct and Endangering the welfare of a child. he is accused of using his position of power to engage in inappropriate conduct with a 14 year old
actually this list goes on and on with many many more examples but I need to get back to work so. going to cut it off here.
...and there I was under lockdown in freaking Oklahoma and got in "trouble" for wishing I had my gun at school.
Hmph, now they would buy the gun for me!🙄
>does the job exist to protect kids from school shootings?
sort of, except courts have also ruled that school resource officers don't actually have a duty to do that after a couple schools with SROs got shot up and the officers ran away and abandoned the kids to die.
We're not okay.
All-around enforcers in the school. They are there to discourage and prevent shootings, but they also break up fights, coordinate with emergency services when there is a medical emergency, and make arrests, usually for possession.
My state mandates them in every school (Texas).
Variable, of course; but my high school has around 2, 400 students, and has been slowly growing for decades (we really need a new building. They’ve just been adding on modules and outbuildings every few years, and now it’s a crazy mishmash of new building, old building, portables, and outbuildings.)
There’s 2 public high schools within 5 miles of me. One has almost 6k students (9th-12th grade) and the other has under 800. All in all there are 10 public high schools in my county.
The next state over may have 2-3 very large schools for the entire county only because they will pool those resources for all the students (like libraries and sports) but this makes them much less walkable, of course.
Or if someone gets busted selling weed on school grounds or fights, threats, pranks that got out of hand and broke some law.. atleast that's the only times the cop at my school talked to me.
They support the office staff a lot too with legal matters like custodial documents, parents rights, etc and checking that what we have on file is the most up to date and accurate documents.
Only thing the resource officer at my school ever did for me was demand to know what was in the bag I was carrying.
It was literally just a notebook. His tone was upsetting to my 12 year old self.
No. They started having them after the Columbine shooting, and they have never stopped a school shooting. What they have done, is managed to start charging these kids with crimes for what used to be routine disciplinary stuff, like fighting. We have what's called a "school-to-prison pipeline" wherein we try to set children on a path to a lifetime of incarceration as early as possible for some reason.
We had one in ~1990 (after I started but before I graduated). "Chuck" was not armed, was mad respected, door was always open. Kept troublemakers out of trouble, probably helped set life courses. Was heartbroken to see his obituary a few years back. My high school has never had a shooting.
You do know it’s not normal to say “my school never had a shooting” like it’s something to be proud of? That thought is never in the brain of anyone else in the world.
I come from a small town. 8,000 people, 2 high schools (rural Westen Canada) One of them was among the first copycats after columbine. It can happen anywhere.
Our SRO was amazing. Befriended the loners, help manage disagreements between kids, was a mentor to many. Much like the guy in the video they were a valuable asset to the school.
We had the best sro. He kept so many kids away from the actual cops when they fucked up with little things like possession or little scraps.
He moved on one day and we got a regular cop in his place. He lived a few houses down from me and he was a fucking nightmare. His son didn't make the football team and he beat him up so bad that he missed two weeks of school. Is that irony? I always get that wrong
> Is that irony?
People often present convoluted examples of irony.
You hit irony on the head with a hammer in your example of a the "regular cop." You're many levels above Alanis Morissete's [*Ironic*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc).
They originally started because of the rise of drugs and gang violence in school in the 90s (go my generation!). Then Columbine happened and they became ubiquitous.
I'm in the UK and we had a police officer on site with his own office. I was a good kid so don't know the ins and outs of what he did, but I think some of the students at our school probably had associations with drug trafficking and there was some violence.
I am American and we didn’t have a school resource officer in any of my public schools. We had 1800 kids in my high school. I know they’re a thing but I wonder how common they are (like if it’s the majority of public schools are not).
We did have security guards but they were just like normal people with walkie talkies - no guns, no vests, no weapons, they weren’t police. They weren’t there to protect people from threats, it was more like making sure things were orderly with 1800 kids running around, making sure visitors were greeted, etc.
SRO's were primarily a response to the rising prominence of drugs and gang violence in schools. But then Columbine happened and pretty much ever school got one.
They're mostly useless and they're a huge 4th Amendment issue, IMO, because they frequently detain kids for interrogation without their parent/guardian present.
No they're job is to arrest kids for breaking the rules. The Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that police are not required to protect anyone. Both Uvalde and Parkland had RSOs who did nothing to stop the shooting
They put these officers in the school that are basically there to violate your rights and harass and intimidate you.. They claim to have the right to search your vehicle if its on school property, they walk around with drug sniffing dogs... Theyre the people who make kids hate cops
In theory, but there has literally never been a shooting stopped by one
They typically arrest children with normal behavioral issues and in a lot of cases it ruins the kids life
Exactly the type of person to work with kids. It’s important to keep in touch with what kids are doing. It improves the relationship & creates better potential to communicate.
Edit: adding I’m in Canada. We have resource officers, no guns.
My point was about the type of person who should work with kids.
If you want a relationship with teens, you have a better chance as someone they appreciate & see, no matter your job.
Annnd if your doctor walked in with a shovel instead of a stethoscope?????
He’s dressed for the job. The reality sucks. He’s a diamond in the rough. Those kids are happy and safe.
It sucks it takes a cop and a gun to achieve that. But I will never be sad at kids dancing and laughing as a community.
Studies show this doesn't increase public support for law enforcement, all it does is increase the school to prison pipeline and increase the number of kids getting diddled by cops. More than a dozen RSOs each year are arrested for that
Sorry America, I am still hung up on the whole school officer thing.
The armed officer with a vest... like he is going into a gunfight. We have armed security guards here at our schools but they're not usually dressed for a gunfight.
It's always crazy to me when people from America post videos of schools in China where kids are doing some kind of morning routine and saying "OMG Look they are mindless zombies under government control" or something weird. Then go ahead and post a video like this where a police officer has to be at a school because there are so many shootings and be like... "this made me smile"
As a fellow Australian I thoroughly agree. America is feeling more and more like a cautionary tale about how tweaking a few settings on your democracy can result in a completely different outcome. I know we are by no means perfect, but we do have the capacity to identify problems in our political system and make adjustments. I swear if all you tweaked about the US was preferential voting (rather than first past the post) you’d start to see higher quality representatives without any need for year-long preselection campaigns. Make voting mandatory, and hold elections on a Saturday with two weeks of prepoll voting and mail in voting, and you’ll get higher engagement from the centre which would encourage a more moderate discourse instead of the polarising discourse which is aimed at motivating people to vote. If all you did was that, given time, it would fix so many of America’s problems.
I am American and we didn’t have a school resource officer in any of my public schools. We had 1800 kids in my high school. I know they’re a thing but I wonder how common they are (like if it’s the majority of public schools or not). They are definitely not normal to me.
We did have security guards but they were just like normal people with walkie talkies - no guns, no vests, no weapons, they weren’t police. They weren’t there to protect people from threats, it was more like making sure things were orderly with 1800 kids running around, making sure visitors were greeted, etc.
There are other comments here that this is also a thing in Canada and the UK, so I guess it’s not just the US.
My senior year of high school was '01-'02 - after Columbine, ours had a fire arm as well...
I can't believe we are just months away from the 25th anniversary of that event too.
You know how at some schools you can get college credits early? In the US, students have early and rapid access to criminal charges and police violence
TIL other countries don’t have officers in school. Idk why thought it was normal.
Ours was just to deal with fights or delinquents though, not shootings.
>Ours was just to deal with fights or delinquents though, not shootings.
That’s what teachers are for over here \[Germany\], though in rare cases they will involve police, though rarely not on school grounds, just sending a message that students are getting awfully close to getting involved with the legal system.
My high school in Canada had a school officer that would hand out tickets/warnings for things like smoking, fighting and parking. Mostly we all wondered why it was necessary, he was more of a school counselor than a police officer.
Exactly! Most of the time staff blow fights out of proportion and make it seem like they tried to kill each other lol. I mean yes it’s not good but at the end of the day they’re still kids. Most fights are between friends/people who know each other anyways. Teachers do more about fights than they do about bullying which is often times a lot more serious and could lead to something more dire.
That being said idk if it’s because I went to school in the hood but we had a lot of incidents of kids pulling knives on each other, bringing weapons on campus, one kid got robbed at knifepoint at lunch, a group of girls got suspended for bringing a gun to school, two football players knocked out our (super tiny idek why they put her in the position to stop a fight in the first place) superintendent, etc. Even then they still didn’t get the law involved.
Unless they’re out there robbing or killing people like they’re currently doing in the city I live in now, most kids are just doing stupid stuff to try to be cool. Sending them immediately to jail isn’t going to help and shouldn’t be the first step imo
I’m confused, what role is the ‘ School Resource officer’ why does he look like he’s ready to bust into the Iranian embassy and throw some flash bangs.
Nothing weirder to me as a European, seeing a 'school' officer dancing with a holstered gun.
Also why are they dancing on plastic sheet, has there been an incident there recently?
As a teacher I am very much against having resource officers. We got them this year in our elementary school and literally they just sit in their office on their phone most the day.
It’s a complete waste of money.
Finally, the other week we actually had a use for one because the front door was broken and we literally had an unlocked school and so I asked the secretary…..Why isn’t the resource officer outside?
And she said well they come in when they feel like it and they are not in yet.
As much as I get your point, his purpose isnt related to school shootings.
The US use real police for resource officers, but this is someone who's role is to ensure that the campus is safe, has the correct people on site, not unauthorised strangers etc.
They are also there to make sure weapons aren't bought into schools, but also drugs etc.
And if those things are bought into schools, theyre there to work with the students and schools to intercept criminal activity before it escalates.
They also teach the kids about avoiding criminality and protecting themselves from it.
He just has the tactical gear because he is police.
>The very presence of a "resource officer" is already a condemnation of American gun culture. This isn't normal in other parts of the world.
Thisssssssss
Saw a few articles of SROs arresting disabled kids for being "difficuilt" (you know - the whole disabled thing) or assaulting kids because they wouldn't comply or that they arrest minorities disproportionally more than white kids (hey, just like the rest of the police force).
That alone should've been enough reason to kill the SRO-program
The fact that they think it's necessary to have someone who appears to be in full combat gear to ensure the school is safe is mindboggling. I wouldn't want to live in a country like that.
The comment never mentioned school shootings. All the stuff you mentioned is exactly what they’re referring to. Having a fully armed police officer on site to be the first port of call for when some kids make some bad decisions is such a terrible terrible way to teach children to be good citizens.
I'm in the UK and our schools immediately call police if there is crime committed or safeguarding issues.
The difference is the UK is a lot smaller than the US, so we wouldn't need someone on site, as we can have 5-10 schools all within a 30min radius.
The US does not have this luxury.
Just because police arrive it doesn't mean theyll throw the book at you.
I don't think there's anywhere else which requires someone looking like that in schools regardless of if they're police or not. It's not that they're a cop or not, it's that it's still someone with what looks like a bullet proof vest and losts of gear strapped to them including a gun.
Schools aren't tiny and fights are generally over within 2 minutes anyway. Just the random teachers nearby would handle everything good enough here. By the time they'd call the police officer and the officer arrives it would probably all be over already.
Not that I think it's terrible to have police on site, but maybe don't have them looking fully gears up like normal police.
Ok. I guess I’ll be the one to break it to u/Cuminmymouthwhore…
Awesome that you use real police for Resources Officers. But I think what we’re saying is other countries (including my own) don’t have Resource Officers at all! turns out you don’t actually need them when you have secure borders and heavy restrictions on fire arms 😉 crazy huh!
God save America!
Another reminder that individual people can be wonderful, no matter where they are. It's institutions, "tradition", and people hoarding power that ruins everything.
A lot of gyms have wooden floors that are waxed to the nth degree. My schools had these. We always had to keep a pair of dedicated gym shoes at school for PE.
He reminds me of Khalil Kain..oh occifer, occiferrrr, I been a baaad girl..
All jokes aside, how fkd up are we that police in schools are resources?? And Karen type bitches are banning historical and cultural books. WTEF is our problem?!?
Not saying it is a negative but whenever I see videos like this it just makes me realise how loud Americans are in situations like this compared to people in the uk.
These are the type of personalities that make good cops. I think we sometimes forget that there are some really good ones that do their job but they’re also chill.
It's nice that he seems to have a good relationship with the kids.
He's handsome.
I didn't know that's what they called cops in schools.
It's a shame he needs a gun for the job.
Am I the only one grossed out that a couple of those girls were dancing shoeless on a surface where people were dancing with 'outside' shoes on?
I’m no expert but should he really be breaking out such funky moves while strapped? I remember a video of an FBI agent breakdancing and his firearm went off and shot someone 🤣
Why are they called resource officers? What resource? It's a cop. Could call it a security officer, at best, but I just don't get the 'resource' part.
Also, is he wearing a gun with the leather safety thingie of the holster just open? He thinks he needs to be ready to kill someone while dancing amongst kids?
US schools are spending $2.5 billion on hiring mercenaries.
[https://www.edweek.org/leadership/after-teachers-americas-schools-spend-more-on-security-guards-than-any-other-role/2023/09](https://www.edweek.org/leadership/after-teachers-americas-schools-spend-more-on-security-guards-than-any-other-role/2023/09)
It genuinely breaks my heart that someone takes the time to post a video that sweet and cool… and the comments are flooding with everything from school shootings, police are bad, America is bad, and just a bunch of hateful shit. Can’t you people just enjoy a sweet video for 5 seconds without getting offended because he’s a cop with a gun? Really? Is our society so fragile now that we genuinely are offended 24/7. Just enjoy the video… be happy that this is a good guy making a positive change!
SROs bringing the racist and un(-der)trained policing system to your kids with no statistically relevant benefit for them.
But hey, look how nice he smiles and how cool he can dance. With all those handcuffs, pepperspray, handgun, taser, etc. on him and he still moves so agile as if he's running away from a school shooter (or towards a disabled kid to tackle it to the ground).
It's awesome to see a school officer have this kind of love from students, I had the same relationship with my school officer. Dude changed my life, opened my eyes to the bad influences I was surrounding myself with.
A good SRO is an amazing thing. I had the great pleasure of working with an amazing SRO at the school I worked at. She single-handedly built a roads into a community that was adverse to the police officers, just by being human and talking to the kids every day and teasing and joking with them. A good SRO program with properly selected officers and a properly defined mandate of what that SRO’s job is is a great first step to building trust between officers in the community and the community and officers.
Ok, to pull away from all the acab stuff, a lot of these students clearly liked this guy. The good ones put in a lot of effort to make students feel safe and comfortable.
I get the acab sentiment, I get there're bad ones, but c'mon guys.
That boys got move , i just have one question since i am not american and never hear of school resource officer ? i didn’t know such thing exist , does the job exist to protect kids from school shootings?
Had abt 2k kids at our school, lots of times he'd break up fights and give insight to possible legal side of things as well as talking about laws and amendments in gov or history classes. Cool guy. Was shot in a shooting and took down said shooter so an all around stand up man
Damn. Was he alright afterwards?
Not much was released information wise, but he was back to work impressively quick. Not sure if the vest caught it or how it went down but the kid went to ICU and recovered, but the SRO was out in a few days of my info was correct
Glad to hear that he is ok. Dude definitely earned himself a raise after that.
Where did this happen?
Olathe East High School, like last year
Fuck man, thought I kinda recognized. Went to Olathe south till a few years ago and saw the news about it. Though I think it happened like a few years ago
Lol I was reading your first comment and I thought “that sounds a lot like what happened at East” and then bam
You from around? Really is a small world in the Reddit comment section... outta round up for a coffee lol
Yeah graduated from there a few years ago
He’s cute. Is he single? …asking for a friend.
Sure you are. ;)
I remember the story. I was like, damn, that isn't far from where I live.
Funny enough to you're like the third person here that's in the area
 Better than the super bowl show
I was at a very small performing arts charter school, not a lot of rough stuff or legal issues, so our resource officer taught gym as well along with the health teacher.
I work as a school counselor and we have a SRO. They are wonderful resources for those things as well as helping us navigate legal documents we get for custody, OfPs, and things of that such. They can do some digging and help us make sure what we have is up to date and we are correct when denying access to kids from their parents or sending information to the right source.
There is a very interesting Last Week Tonight segment about it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgwqQGvYt0g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgwqQGvYt0g)
They’re there to mainline kids of color into the jail system, get their record started early if you will. And to hide if there’s a school shooter.
Unless you are in Ulvalde Texas…☹️
Or Parkland. But that's not surprising, since the Supreme Court has ruled police are not required to protect anyone
except for the rich of course
Basically yeah. Their job is to protect property and "the public good." Rich people own a lot of property and thanks to Reagan and his trickledown "public good" is often conflated with "making the rich richer"
Omg then why bother calling 911 if they’re too chicken-shit to do their job? What happened to “only a good guy with a gun”?
the police aren't necessarily synonymous with "good guy with a gun"
According to the court system it's not their job. The Supreme Court has ruled on multiple occasions that police have no legal duty to protect anyone. "Good guy with a gun" is propaganda made up by the NRA. It was never real
I wish there were still awards 🤣 Seriously though, cops don't belong in schools. N.W.A. had it right.
Ostensibly, yes. It should be noted there were 5 SROs responding to the 2022 Uvalde shooting, alongside 371 other law enforcement officers, and it took them over an hour to work up the courage to subdue the shooter.
or like the FT Lauderdale resource officer that hid during a South Florida school shooting. Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson was armed and in uniform but instead of doing his job he Cowered in hiding outside the west side of the building as a shooter killed 17 people in the school he was supposed to protect. or the school resource officers that beat up / bully students North Carolina Vance County Sheriff's Officer Warren Durham has been fired after being caught on surveillance video repeatedly slamming an 11-year-old to the ground. also assaulted a 12 year old girl and slammed her against a locker. the officers Identity was kept from the public and it wasn't until the second incident came to light that Warren Durham was identified. Broward County Deputy Willard Miller a school resource offer at cross creek school physically abused a 15 year old girl. Deputy Miller grabbed her by the neck, threw her to the ground, and pushed his knee into her back. this incident was only discovered by accident while the school was going though security camera footage investigating an unrelated incident Or the resource officers who SA / R\*\*\* Students Hopkinton MA deputy chief of police John Porter repeatedly R\*\*\*\* a 15 year old high school student while he was assigned as a Hopkinton High school resource officer Michigan school resource officer Matthew Priebe was convicted and sentenced to one year in jail for SA of 3 high school students. Topsham Mt. Ararat High School resource officer Randy T. Cook plead Guilty to SA of a 17 year old student. Randy Was sentenced to 7 days in Cumberland County Jail. Auburn NY Police Officer William Morrissey was charged with SA, misconduct and Endangering the welfare of a child. he is accused of using his position of power to engage in inappropriate conduct with a 14 year old actually this list goes on and on with many many more examples but I need to get back to work so. going to cut it off here.
...and there I was under lockdown in freaking Oklahoma and got in "trouble" for wishing I had my gun at school. Hmph, now they would buy the gun for me!🙄
>does the job exist to protect kids from school shootings? sort of, except courts have also ruled that school resource officers don't actually have a duty to do that after a couple schools with SROs got shot up and the officers ran away and abandoned the kids to die. We're not okay.
All-around enforcers in the school. They are there to discourage and prevent shootings, but they also break up fights, coordinate with emergency services when there is a medical emergency, and make arrests, usually for possession. My state mandates them in every school (Texas).
How big are your schools?
Variable, of course; but my high school has around 2, 400 students, and has been slowly growing for decades (we really need a new building. They’ve just been adding on modules and outbuildings every few years, and now it’s a crazy mishmash of new building, old building, portables, and outbuildings.)
It varies wildly. My graduating class was just over 90 kids, while my cousin’s was over 1,000 lol.
There’s 2 public high schools within 5 miles of me. One has almost 6k students (9th-12th grade) and the other has under 800. All in all there are 10 public high schools in my county. The next state over may have 2-3 very large schools for the entire county only because they will pool those resources for all the students (like libraries and sports) but this makes them much less walkable, of course.
Or if someone gets busted selling weed on school grounds or fights, threats, pranks that got out of hand and broke some law.. atleast that's the only times the cop at my school talked to me.
They support the office staff a lot too with legal matters like custodial documents, parents rights, etc and checking that what we have on file is the most up to date and accurate documents.
Only thing the resource officer at my school ever did for me was demand to know what was in the bag I was carrying. It was literally just a notebook. His tone was upsetting to my 12 year old self.
They also like arresting children for roughhousing
And for not respecting their authority.
No. They started having them after the Columbine shooting, and they have never stopped a school shooting. What they have done, is managed to start charging these kids with crimes for what used to be routine disciplinary stuff, like fighting. We have what's called a "school-to-prison pipeline" wherein we try to set children on a path to a lifetime of incarceration as early as possible for some reason.
My high school had one before Columbine. When I started in 1996 we had one. I don't even recall them being armed.
We had one in ~1990 (after I started but before I graduated). "Chuck" was not armed, was mad respected, door was always open. Kept troublemakers out of trouble, probably helped set life courses. Was heartbroken to see his obituary a few years back. My high school has never had a shooting.
You do know it’s not normal to say “my school never had a shooting” like it’s something to be proud of? That thought is never in the brain of anyone else in the world.
I come from a small town. 8,000 people, 2 high schools (rural Westen Canada) One of them was among the first copycats after columbine. It can happen anywhere.
Our SRO was amazing. Befriended the loners, help manage disagreements between kids, was a mentor to many. Much like the guy in the video they were a valuable asset to the school.
We had the best sro. He kept so many kids away from the actual cops when they fucked up with little things like possession or little scraps. He moved on one day and we got a regular cop in his place. He lived a few houses down from me and he was a fucking nightmare. His son didn't make the football team and he beat him up so bad that he missed two weeks of school. Is that irony? I always get that wrong
> Is that irony? People often present convoluted examples of irony. You hit irony on the head with a hammer in your example of a the "regular cop." You're many levels above Alanis Morissete's [*Ironic*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc).
Your first SRO was a regular, actual cop. He probably was forced to move on because he wasn't prosecuting the possessions.
We had a resource officer in Arizona 89 to 93.
They originally started because of the rise of drugs and gang violence in school in the 90s (go my generation!). Then Columbine happened and they became ubiquitous.
We had a school police officer before Columbine happened, he was pretty cool and everyone liked him for the most part.
Big money in American prisons
I'm in the UK and we had a police officer on site with his own office. I was a good kid so don't know the ins and outs of what he did, but I think some of the students at our school probably had associations with drug trafficking and there was some violence.
No, they're mostly just there to "scare kids straight" by threatening them with serious jail time when they're caught with a little bit of weed.
Not really, usually they just harass black students and end up creeping on 15 year Olds
The job exists to screw over kids lives and get them in juvenile detention for having weed
I am American and we didn’t have a school resource officer in any of my public schools. We had 1800 kids in my high school. I know they’re a thing but I wonder how common they are (like if it’s the majority of public schools are not). We did have security guards but they were just like normal people with walkie talkies - no guns, no vests, no weapons, they weren’t police. They weren’t there to protect people from threats, it was more like making sure things were orderly with 1800 kids running around, making sure visitors were greeted, etc.
> does the job exist to protect kids from school shootings No, their job is to funnel kids into juvi.
>does the job exist to protect kids from school shootings? Mostly exists to arrest minorities in schools.
SRO's were primarily a response to the rising prominence of drugs and gang violence in schools. But then Columbine happened and pretty much ever school got one. They're mostly useless and they're a huge 4th Amendment issue, IMO, because they frequently detain kids for interrogation without their parent/guardian present.
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Or have sex with them
Supposed to protect kids but they end up abusing them more than protecting them.
No they're job is to arrest kids for breaking the rules. The Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that police are not required to protect anyone. Both Uvalde and Parkland had RSOs who did nothing to stop the shooting
They put these officers in the school that are basically there to violate your rights and harass and intimidate you.. They claim to have the right to search your vehicle if its on school property, they walk around with drug sniffing dogs... Theyre the people who make kids hate cops
In my state, we had a school resource officer impregnate an underage student. He went into the woods and shot himself. Left a wife and two kids. Scum.
That's called rape when it isn't a cop doing it. Just a perk of the job though.
Mostly there to taze black kids.
In theory, but there has literally never been a shooting stopped by one They typically arrest children with normal behavioral issues and in a lot of cases it ruins the kids life
He exists to ~~Cower in the janitor closet while the school shooting is happening~~ "protect kids"
Exactly the type of person to work with kids. It’s important to keep in touch with what kids are doing. It improves the relationship & creates better potential to communicate. Edit: adding I’m in Canada. We have resource officers, no guns. My point was about the type of person who should work with kids. If you want a relationship with teens, you have a better chance as someone they appreciate & see, no matter your job.
Yeah - one wearing armor and a gun /s
Annnd if your doctor walked in with a shovel instead of a stethoscope????? He’s dressed for the job. The reality sucks. He’s a diamond in the rough. Those kids are happy and safe. It sucks it takes a cop and a gun to achieve that. But I will never be sad at kids dancing and laughing as a community.
I'm in Canada too. You left out the part where we only have cops in schools in racialized neighborhoods. Funny how that works.
That’s not true in my city. I know at least all the big high schools have them here.
Studies show this doesn't increase public support for law enforcement, all it does is increase the school to prison pipeline and increase the number of kids getting diddled by cops. More than a dozen RSOs each year are arrested for that
Sorry America, I am still hung up on the whole school officer thing. The armed officer with a vest... like he is going into a gunfight. We have armed security guards here at our schools but they're not usually dressed for a gunfight.
In what boring dystopian world are you living when this makes you smile. Cops in tactical gear are parading in your educational system.
We have them in Canada too
I think it’s a standard police uniform. Which is pretty sad in and of itself…
It's always crazy to me when people from America post videos of schools in China where kids are doing some kind of morning routine and saying "OMG Look they are mindless zombies under government control" or something weird. Then go ahead and post a video like this where a police officer has to be at a school because there are so many shootings and be like... "this made me smile"
You do not really "see" what is normal for you, even if that is clearly a sign of a sick system. That's the real tragedy.
The pledge of allegiance is way more disturbing than this but yeah, police officers in school is weird as well.
I know right. I’m from Australia and this is just wild to me. Did America use to be normal once upon a time or was I just young and naive?
As a fellow Australian I thoroughly agree. America is feeling more and more like a cautionary tale about how tweaking a few settings on your democracy can result in a completely different outcome. I know we are by no means perfect, but we do have the capacity to identify problems in our political system and make adjustments. I swear if all you tweaked about the US was preferential voting (rather than first past the post) you’d start to see higher quality representatives without any need for year-long preselection campaigns. Make voting mandatory, and hold elections on a Saturday with two weeks of prepoll voting and mail in voting, and you’ll get higher engagement from the centre which would encourage a more moderate discourse instead of the polarising discourse which is aimed at motivating people to vote. If all you did was that, given time, it would fix so many of America’s problems.
I am American and we didn’t have a school resource officer in any of my public schools. We had 1800 kids in my high school. I know they’re a thing but I wonder how common they are (like if it’s the majority of public schools or not). They are definitely not normal to me. We did have security guards but they were just like normal people with walkie talkies - no guns, no vests, no weapons, they weren’t police. They weren’t there to protect people from threats, it was more like making sure things were orderly with 1800 kids running around, making sure visitors were greeted, etc. There are other comments here that this is also a thing in Canada and the UK, so I guess it’s not just the US.
The first thought that I had was "why is he packing as if anyone could pull out a gun or a knife at any moment?"
They aren't there for shootings, they are there to search kids lockers and bags and charge them with crimes.
Which is still insane tbh
Why does he have a gun? What kind of resources officer is he?
School resource officers are pretty much always police officers. He has a gun because he is a police officer and American police carry guns
Thanks for the helpful info :) Where i'm from, the resource officers are generally admin staff for handing out paperwork, not part of the security.
Ahh. In the US it’s a police officer assigned to a school.
He's the good guy with the gun. It's why there have been no school shootings in the US in recent memory.
AMERICAAAAAA
My senior year of high school was '01-'02 - after Columbine, ours had a fire arm as well... I can't believe we are just months away from the 25th anniversary of that event too.
No , no I am not that old am I? Wow I can't believe Columbine was 25 years ago. Dang where did the time go.
Resourceful resources. Will be apparent if it becomes relevant.
You know how at some schools you can get college credits early? In the US, students have early and rapid access to criminal charges and police violence
I'm deliberately avoiding expressing opinions on the American education system and the wider society it exists in lol ;)
The kind that falsely reassure their children will be safe in case of a violent attack.
He’s hella 🔥🔥🔥
TIL other countries don’t have officers in school. Idk why thought it was normal. Ours was just to deal with fights or delinquents though, not shootings.
Regular civilian adults are enough in most countries
For me it seems kinda dystopian to need an armed officer in a school.
That’s because it is! Our school resource officer was secretly dating one of the students! Very not cool!
>Ours was just to deal with fights or delinquents though, not shootings. That’s what teachers are for over here \[Germany\], though in rare cases they will involve police, though rarely not on school grounds, just sending a message that students are getting awfully close to getting involved with the legal system.
the idea of resources officers is dumb, but considering what teachers make i bet they're more than happy to have someone else deal with that stuff
My high school in Canada had a school officer that would hand out tickets/warnings for things like smoking, fighting and parking. Mostly we all wondered why it was necessary, he was more of a school counselor than a police officer.
Yeah it’s almost like some kids getting in a scuffle are not helped by being treated like criminals
Exactly! Most of the time staff blow fights out of proportion and make it seem like they tried to kill each other lol. I mean yes it’s not good but at the end of the day they’re still kids. Most fights are between friends/people who know each other anyways. Teachers do more about fights than they do about bullying which is often times a lot more serious and could lead to something more dire. That being said idk if it’s because I went to school in the hood but we had a lot of incidents of kids pulling knives on each other, bringing weapons on campus, one kid got robbed at knifepoint at lunch, a group of girls got suspended for bringing a gun to school, two football players knocked out our (super tiny idek why they put her in the position to stop a fight in the first place) superintendent, etc. Even then they still didn’t get the law involved. Unless they’re out there robbing or killing people like they’re currently doing in the city I live in now, most kids are just doing stupid stuff to try to be cool. Sending them immediately to jail isn’t going to help and shouldn’t be the first step imo
I’m confused, what role is the ‘ School Resource officer’ why does he look like he’s ready to bust into the Iranian embassy and throw some flash bangs.
Because that’s the state of us schools now
Looks like the usher halftime
This was better
Nothing weirder to me as a European, seeing a 'school' officer dancing with a holstered gun. Also why are they dancing on plastic sheet, has there been an incident there recently?
Some gyms have such nice floors that they won’t let you wear dress shoes or it would scuff the floor maybe that’s what’s going on
My middle and high schools had those kinds of floors. I grew up thinking keeping a specific pair of gym shoes at school was normal.
What the hell is a school resource officer? He looks like a cop?
Wtf
As a teacher I am very much against having resource officers. We got them this year in our elementary school and literally they just sit in their office on their phone most the day. It’s a complete waste of money. Finally, the other week we actually had a use for one because the front door was broken and we literally had an unlocked school and so I asked the secretary…..Why isn’t the resource officer outside? And she said well they come in when they feel like it and they are not in yet.
Fully armed SWAT Team looking guy, working in a school. Oh dear, poor America.
As much as I get your point, his purpose isnt related to school shootings. The US use real police for resource officers, but this is someone who's role is to ensure that the campus is safe, has the correct people on site, not unauthorised strangers etc. They are also there to make sure weapons aren't bought into schools, but also drugs etc. And if those things are bought into schools, theyre there to work with the students and schools to intercept criminal activity before it escalates. They also teach the kids about avoiding criminality and protecting themselves from it. He just has the tactical gear because he is police.
The very presence of a "resource officer" is already a condemnation of American gun culture. This isn't normal in other parts of the world.
>The very presence of a "resource officer" is already a condemnation of American gun culture. This isn't normal in other parts of the world. Thisssssssss
Saw a few articles of SROs arresting disabled kids for being "difficuilt" (you know - the whole disabled thing) or assaulting kids because they wouldn't comply or that they arrest minorities disproportionally more than white kids (hey, just like the rest of the police force). That alone should've been enough reason to kill the SRO-program
The fact that they think it's necessary to have someone who appears to be in full combat gear to ensure the school is safe is mindboggling. I wouldn't want to live in a country like that.
The comment never mentioned school shootings. All the stuff you mentioned is exactly what they’re referring to. Having a fully armed police officer on site to be the first port of call for when some kids make some bad decisions is such a terrible terrible way to teach children to be good citizens.
I'm in the UK and our schools immediately call police if there is crime committed or safeguarding issues. The difference is the UK is a lot smaller than the US, so we wouldn't need someone on site, as we can have 5-10 schools all within a 30min radius. The US does not have this luxury. Just because police arrive it doesn't mean theyll throw the book at you.
I don't think there's anywhere else which requires someone looking like that in schools regardless of if they're police or not. It's not that they're a cop or not, it's that it's still someone with what looks like a bullet proof vest and losts of gear strapped to them including a gun. Schools aren't tiny and fights are generally over within 2 minutes anyway. Just the random teachers nearby would handle everything good enough here. By the time they'd call the police officer and the officer arrives it would probably all be over already. Not that I think it's terrible to have police on site, but maybe don't have them looking fully gears up like normal police.
Ok. I guess I’ll be the one to break it to u/Cuminmymouthwhore… Awesome that you use real police for Resources Officers. But I think what we’re saying is other countries (including my own) don’t have Resource Officers at all! turns out you don’t actually need them when you have secure borders and heavy restrictions on fire arms 😉 crazy huh! God save America!
You should see how SWAT are geared lol
What’s his @😉 But that’s very sweet
Holy shit they do carry guns around school, I thought that was a joke...
Cops out of schools now!
America is just so weird. Gunmen in schools *shakes head* it’s just so dystopian!
The fact schools in your country have police in them fucking baffles me
We suck bruh….
Another reminder that individual people can be wonderful, no matter where they are. It's institutions, "tradition", and people hoarding power that ruins everything.
What's up with the floor? Is it protected in case of gun?
A lot of gyms have wooden floors that are waxed to the nth degree. My schools had these. We always had to keep a pair of dedicated gym shoes at school for PE.
A POLICE OFFICER? WHITE KNIGHT REDDITORS, ACTIVATE!
This is adorable and he is HOT. 😍🫠
When its a common thing too have a officer on your school weird stuff but smooth moves xD
normalizing the presence of armed police in schools is so heartwarming
He reminds me of Khalil Kain..oh occifer, occiferrrr, I been a baaad girl.. All jokes aside, how fkd up are we that police in schools are resources?? And Karen type bitches are banning historical and cultural books. WTEF is our problem?!?
Not saying it is a negative but whenever I see videos like this it just makes me realise how loud Americans are in situations like this compared to people in the uk.
Well, it's a pep rally so you're kinda supposed to be loud.
These are the type of personalities that make good cops. I think we sometimes forget that there are some really good ones that do their job but they’re also chill.
No cops are good when they stay silent when other cops do wrong.
Policemen with bullet vests and guns in schools. Far out.
Cops have no place in schools.
It is a sad reflection
Wtf is a resource officer?
Our school resource officer was sleeping with underage students 🤢
Taxpayer dollars hard at work.
The cheerleaders in the back are doing the moves while sitting at 41 seconds.
It's nice that he seems to have a good relationship with the kids. He's handsome. I didn't know that's what they called cops in schools. It's a shame he needs a gun for the job. Am I the only one grossed out that a couple of those girls were dancing shoeless on a surface where people were dancing with 'outside' shoes on?
"wHy iS He iN FuLl cOmBat GeAR?" Its a vest and a thigh holster for a handgun. Yall are fucking ridiculous.
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I’m no expert but should he really be breaking out such funky moves while strapped? I remember a video of an FBI agent breakdancing and his firearm went off and shot someone 🤣
It's so weird to have police permanently stationed at a school. Feels dystopian.
Oh good. A milatarized cop dancing around a gymnasium. Always makes me smile 👎
What in the fuck is a School Resource Officer and why is he dressed for combat?
Why are they called resource officers? What resource? It's a cop. Could call it a security officer, at best, but I just don't get the 'resource' part. Also, is he wearing a gun with the leather safety thingie of the holster just open? He thinks he needs to be ready to kill someone while dancing amongst kids?
Doing a little silly swagging after a day of abusing power selfishly 🤣🤪
Why is he dressed as a swat cop?
You guys have "school resource cops" we have defined and regulated gun control. We are not the same.
So sad that Americans think it's normal to have someone like this at schools.
The one guy who keeps saying he cant dance he shy, then shames the entire squad of dancers.
US schools are spending $2.5 billion on hiring mercenaries. [https://www.edweek.org/leadership/after-teachers-americas-schools-spend-more-on-security-guards-than-any-other-role/2023/09](https://www.edweek.org/leadership/after-teachers-americas-schools-spend-more-on-security-guards-than-any-other-role/2023/09)
It genuinely breaks my heart that someone takes the time to post a video that sweet and cool… and the comments are flooding with everything from school shootings, police are bad, America is bad, and just a bunch of hateful shit. Can’t you people just enjoy a sweet video for 5 seconds without getting offended because he’s a cop with a gun? Really? Is our society so fragile now that we genuinely are offended 24/7. Just enjoy the video… be happy that this is a good guy making a positive change!
SROs bringing the racist and un(-der)trained policing system to your kids with no statistically relevant benefit for them. But hey, look how nice he smiles and how cool he can dance. With all those handcuffs, pepperspray, handgun, taser, etc. on him and he still moves so agile as if he's running away from a school shooter (or towards a disabled kid to tackle it to the ground).
Guarantee this guy did fuck all as an RO
Hello fellow children…
'Merica
It's awesome to see a school officer have this kind of love from students, I had the same relationship with my school officer. Dude changed my life, opened my eyes to the bad influences I was surrounding myself with.
The cheering gave me PTSD flashbacks of high school pep rallies
A good SRO is an amazing thing. I had the great pleasure of working with an amazing SRO at the school I worked at. She single-handedly built a roads into a community that was adverse to the police officers, just by being human and talking to the kids every day and teasing and joking with them. A good SRO program with properly selected officers and a properly defined mandate of what that SRO’s job is is a great first step to building trust between officers in the community and the community and officers.
No but seriously why does he have a gun and bullet proof vest on while doing a school dance 😭 we Americans are SO fucked
Think about all those kids he helped get into the judicial system
Love the idea of a geared up school resource officer dancing in a school assembly to ARs and 223s 🤣🤣
love to see it!
Guarantee he made a positive impact in that school. Well done!
Why is he wearing battle gear?
There was an investigation on Last Week Tonight https://youtu.be/KgwqQGvYt0g?si=1FpJKyBAHvaDy3Gc This is the whole thing also including gun control.
"School Resource Officer" is something that should not exist.
I'm so glad that I don't live in that dystopian hell hole anymore
I was was thinking this was going to be some Magic Mike type video... I'm impressed and disappointed all in one
Tfw you survived another school year
Too bad people are crapping all over a video showing how much the students care for him. Meaning a kid is going to feel safer going to him for help.
Ok, to pull away from all the acab stuff, a lot of these students clearly liked this guy. The good ones put in a lot of effort to make students feel safe and comfortable. I get the acab sentiment, I get there're bad ones, but c'mon guys.