Some districts that stopped using school resource officers in recent years are now reversing course

More than half of all public schools in the U.S. have law enforcement present on campus. Often, that’s in the form of a school resource officer, or SRO — a police officer, usually one who’s specially trained and armed who’s stationed at the school. Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, more than 50 districts ended or cut back their use of school resource officers.

But since then, school shootings have continued — including the one last year in Uvalde, Texas — and some of those districts are reversing course. 

That includes Denver Public Schools, where the school board voted to reinstate SROs in June, a few months after a student shot and injured two administrators at a school this spring.

The school resource officers are now at 13 high schools in Denver, including George Washington High School. That means when students enter, they pass a police car parked close to the entrance that belongs to the school resource officer. He wasn’t free for an interview, but Principal Dackri Davis pointed out that he knows the territory.

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