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Originally Posted by Titan
I am sure Denver is different but here I believe having a resource officer is a good thing as it allows them to develop a relationship with students that is not based on confrontation. My friend is a principal at a high school and speaks very highly of the officers he has dealt with and is a proponent of having them, completely apart from and security they may provide. It seems it should be a core part of the community policing philosophy.
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Are they just replacing the resource officer with a social worker perhaps? It seems to me the uniform, position, gun(?) is the problem and having a different appearanced person doing pretty much the same job would reduce tensions?