School resource officers make comeback after ‘defund the police’ push subsides

By Jeremiah Poff

Published September 13, 2023 8:00am ET

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School resource officers make comeback after ‘defund the police’ push subsides — School districts that had voted to eliminate school resource officers amid the summer 2020 “defund the police” movement are backtracking and bringing back armed security. In June, the Denver school board voted 4-3 to permit the “persistent presence of school resource officers” in the city’s schools, a stark reversal from 2020 when the board voted […]

School districts that had voted to eliminate school resource officers amid the summer 2020 “defund the police” movement are backtracking and bringing back armed security.

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