school resource officers
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Anderson proposes to have police near, but not in Denver schools
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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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Data shows DPS asks for cops for high-priority calls at same rate with and without SROs
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Denver police are asked to respond to high-priority calls at Denver Public Schools at a similar rate regardless of whether there are school resource officers present or not, 9Wants to Know found. School resource officers were phased out of DPS in 2021. They returned to schools this week after a student shot and injured two…
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Auon’tai Anderson, Michael Hancock in feud over return of SROs to Denver schools
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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 to kick out SROs because Hancock was poised to issue…
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Heroic acts of school resource officers in Aurora shooting contribute to questions of law enforcement’s role in schools
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When gunmen opened fire at Nome Park near Aurora Central High School during lunchtime Monday, students ran for campus. The first people they found for help were two school resource officers, who quickly assessed the bloody scene and applied tourniquets to two of the six injured students. “Two of the students had severe injuries and…
