school resource officers

Some D.C. Council members are calling for more transparency and oversight when students encounter law enforcement in schools. Almost 75% percent of D.C. students are Black, yet they make up 91% of school-based arrests, according to a 2017 report by the U.S. Department of Education. Students of color are more likely to go to a school with a law enforcement...

Almost 75 percent of D.C. students are Black, yet they make up 91 percent of school-based arrests. That troubling statistic is fueling a call for transparency and oversight when students encounter law enforcement in schools. News4’s Cory Smith outlines some of the ideas being floated by council members.

Alexandria city pulled school resource officers from schools last spring, but, after public pressure, is bringing them back. News4’s Drew Wilder spoke with a woman whose brother was beaten up at school. She says she believes school violence has increased without officers there to watch over students.

The Alexandria City Council voted Wednesday to temporarily put school resource officers back into middle and high schools, after hours of heated debate that frustrated the city’s mayor. The council voted 4-3 to put the uniformed police officers back into schools through the end of the school year.  A decision last spring removed SROs from schools this school year....

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on new calls for school resource officers to be returned to Alexandria schools.

Some Alexandria parents and council members are renewing a push to restore the school resource officer program in Alexandria city schools after a student was arrested with a gun.

A review by the News4 I-Team revealed some communities have fully withdrawn police officers from their local schools for the 2021-22 school year, while others have increased their forces and pledged to further bolster their school resource officer programs.

As schools reopen last year’s graduates aren’t the only ones who’ve departed. A review by the News4 I-Team found some communities eliminated school police officers, while neighboring school districts are seeking to hire more of them. Scott MacFarlane reports.

The Montgomery County Council heard impassioned public feedback Thursday evening on a bill to remove school resource officers from public schools. The issue of removing SROs became a focal point of Black Lives Matter protests in Montgomery County last summer after the murder of George Floyd.  “Everyone on this Council seems to agree that Black lives matter,” former Board...

Debate on whether to remove police officers from public schools in Prince George’s County was delayed Thursday. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports on the school board meeting.

The Prince George’s County Board of Education tabled a proposal to remove police officers from schools Thursday evening. “I’m very disappointed that we didn’t have a substantive debate or conversation about this issue,” member Edward Burroughs III said. “This issue is a matter of great importance to our public, and so I thought a thoughtful discourse would have been appropriate.”...