County Wants Police Officers Back in Schools
Montgomery County residents and officials are advocating the return of a full school resource officer program in Montgomery County schools to help with preventative public safety.
Montgomery County officials, police and parents are hopeful that the fiscal 2013 operating budget will allow the county to increase police staffing where they say it could have the greatest impact on public safety: in public schools. "Many of our high schools are virtual cities, many with over 2,000 students and hundreds of staff per school," said Susan Burkinshaw, an advocate of the school resource officer program and co-chair of the Safety and Health Committee of the county council of PTAs. "We don’t need officers in our schools because our schools are not safe; we need officers in our schools to keep our schools and communities safe." With recent budget cuts, school resource officers—traditionally a police officer stationed within high …
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B Allen
10:09 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
So now those knuckleheads in the county council and exec office want to take police from writing tickets and increasing the revenues for the county and have them visit the schools? So that is why they are spending our hard earned tax dollars on more speed cameras...and tleggett and the council members think they are clever, they are just a bunch of scum sucking bottom feeders and think that the … more ›