Republican lawmaker's bill would make armed resource officers mandatory for Kentucky schools

MSN ^ | 9/5/2021 | WLKY

[Right Wing Vegan]

"We've had two bills from Frankfort, state laws, that have said every campus in Kentucky must have an SRO (school resource officer) armed," said State Rep. Kevin Bratcher (R). "JCPS just refuses to do it."

Bratcher, along with two other Republican state representatives, is working on a bill, that would make it mandatory to have SRO's on every single public school campus. The pre-filed bill also removes a clause in the previously passed Safety and Resilience Act that exempts school districts from having an SRO if they can't afford it.

"In this day and age, and it's sad to say, things can happen and it can get out of control," said Bratcher. "You want somebody right there to take care of it, not waiting 5, 10, 15 or even 30 minutes for somebody to show up. There's people's lives at stake."

He said he's already garnered plenty of support for it. However, not everyone in the district is on board.

"There are times we've had police officers in buildings, and the students have not felt safe," said JCPS board member Corrie Shull. "I'm not sure what he (Bratcher) expects to happen by having armed security in schools, other than putting another firearm in our schools and putting our students in more danger."

Shull said the district has in-school security monitors that already patrol campuses.

[Restless]

I miss the days when the only “school safety officers” needed were the teachers and the principal.

[AlmaKing]

Police have no place in schools. It always turns out badly.

And a few kids just don’t belong in school.

This is another case of treating everyone like a criminal instead of just the criminals.

[dadfly]

what we need from the gop is a laser focus on states rights and the border invasion, holding the line on the vaccine nazi’s and nov 3rd full forensic audits.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

We had two armed SRO’s at out high school, and they came in handy a couple of times. I kept in contact with one for quite a few years after I graduated. He’s retired no, and went back to policing the town a couple years after graduation, and he was the first on scene to a really nasty accident I had. It actually helped me build trust with our PD, because I otherwise wouldn’t have had any real interactions with them.

We never had a violent incident between our SRO’s and students while I was there; not that I recall. They broke up a number of fights, but mostly co fiscated an approximate fvckton of drugs. The yuppie kids I went to school with would bring heroin back from the city on the weekends and shoot up in the bathrooms.