SROs

School shooting in Georgia yesterday brings a lot of conflicting issues to the fore:

• On Wednesday afternoon, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith made clear the Apalachee High School attacker was stopped by an armed School Resource Officer.

  During a joint press conference with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), Smith noted that the shooter was confronted by a School Resource Officer and faced with the option of surrendering or being shot.

Gee, a trained armed officer stopped the shooter before it got a lot worse. But no one needs cops in schools.

A reminder:

• Ironically, in 2019, during her first presidential campaign, Kamala Harris called for taking police officers out of schools.

And locally, from the Contrarian X/Twitter feed:

• Chicago Contrarian @ChicagoContrar1
  This is the result of kicking CPD out of CPS.
  
  4 students at Steinmetz H.S. have been hospitalized after a female student entered into a large fight and sprayed 15 students with mace. Possessing mace is a criminal offense.
  
  Steinmetz has "security," but naturally, CPD was called. When CPD arrived, a Steinmetz administrator argued with police over whether to arrest the offender and asked for input from school "security."

We've never been big fans of cops in the schools, mostly because they're mismanaged, horribly deployed, and expected to play the bully to administrators' political whims. If there were a professionally trained, deployed and utilized force that actually was permitted to enforce the Law, we might reconsider, but you can see that even when responding from outside Steinmetz, there's still an effort by school officials to circumvent the Law because of some imagined "school to prison" pipeline that the communists made up.