Democrats hate the police and have wanted cops out of schools for a long time.
The Left and current Democrat Party have always hated the police. “Instead of just being upset, why are we as educators not taking an obvious step and escorting police out of our schools? There is a large body of research that shows that having police in schools negatively impacts student learning and makes kids feel unsafe.”
https://www.chicagoreporter.com/we-protest-police-in-the-streets-so-why-do-we-let-police-in-our-schools/
About 200 students and parents marched from Washington Square Park to City Hall Saturday to protest the presence of police officers in city schools — with some flipping the bird to New York’s Finest along the way.
https://nypost.com/2021/06/05/nyc-students-rally-to-get-cops-out-of-their-schools/
A push at the federal level would remove police from schools, and a senator from Connecticut joined the charge. Sen. Chris Murphy, along with three other lawmakers, introduced a bill that would pave the way to remove school resource officers and replace them with a counseling system. https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/sen-murphy-helps-introduce-legislation-to-remove-officers-from-schools
There are only 4 SRO,s in that county. In Florida in my county, my city we have sro,s at every single school all armed all normal police with additional training. Salaries paid 50% by the Broward School Board usually 2-4 months later and 50% paid by our city. When school is not in session they ( The SRO ) ae assigned to the street patrol. I have lived here since 1989 an I think we always had SRO,s who are City Police...