Tag: School Resource Officers
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Tickets and arrests didn’t increase when SROs were reinstated at Denver schools, police data shows
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Tickets and arrests of students at 13 Denver Public Schools campuses were lower when police officers were not stationed inside the school buildings than when they were, according to state and local data from the 2019-20 and 2022-23 school years. The data backs a key criticism of school resource officers, which is that they increase…
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Denver Public Schools safety plan includes mental health emphasis, training
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Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero released the final draft of the district’s comprehensive safety plan Friday. The plan is chock-full of acronyms and education buzz words, but short on goal-oriented details. “This was never going to be addressed on the granule level,” Marrero told The Denver Gazette Friday. In the aftermath of a shooting…
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Anderson proposes to have police near, but not in Denver schools
Denver Public Schools Board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson — who led the push to remove police officers from campuses in 2020 — now supports a long-term policy for their return near schools. Anderson’s proposal is a hybrid approach with Denver police officers acting as community resource officers that are not stationed in a school, but…
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Denver Public Schools superintendent requested secret meeting to discuss policy change
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In the hours after an East High School shooting wounded two administrators, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero requested a secret meeting with the board of education to discuss changing the district’s policy on campus police, The Denver Gazette has learned. The stated purposed of the proposed executive session — which is closed to the…
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East High School parents’ welcome students back to campus
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 20-degree weather Wednesday did not deter more than 100 parents from welcoming East High School students back to campus after a shooting left two administrators wounded last month. Two weeks ago, a student being patted down before class shot at two administrators. The accused…
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SRO critic Auon’tai Anderson asked Denver police chief to deploy scores of officers to schools
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Despite his public opposition to school resource officers, Denver Public Schools Board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson asked the Denver Police Department to deploy scores of SROs to schools following the shooting at East High School that injured two administrators, the mayor’s office said. The mayor’s…
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City of Denver to pick up tab for police officers returning to schools
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Denver Public Schools high school students return from spring break, many will be greeted Monday by an armed police officer — a show of force after two administrators were shot at East High School last week. But not every high school. Only East and…
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Auon’tai Anderson, Michael Hancock in feud over return of SROs to Denver schools
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver Public Schools Board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson and Mayor Michael Hancock’s office offered two competing versions of why DPS decided to bring back school resource officers to Denver schools. The way Anderson put it, the DPS board was forced to reverse its 2020 decision…
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Controversial in some quarters, not all districts can afford armed police officers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Everybody thinks that SROs are all over the place,” said Christine Harms, director of the Colorado School Safety Resource Center. “Most school districts haven’t been able to afford them,” she said. The center provides resources, training and technical assistance to support safe learning environments. School…
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Denver Public Schools to bring police officers back to schools in light of East High shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In light of yet another shooting at East High School, the topic of school resource officers from Denver police in schools again moved front and center. In June 2020, the Denver School Board unanimously voted to cut ties with Denver Police, following the murder of…