SROs should not be in school. They have a history of hurting students physically and causing the shchool-to-prison-pipeline.

“Schools with higher percentages of students of color are more likely to have zero tolerance policies and generate more suspensions, expulsions, and arrests”

“The use of guns and militarized equipment undermines the basic ethos of school as a supportive learning environment and replaces it with fear and control” (p.995).

Vitale, A. S. (2018). The end of policing. London, UK: Verso.