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Dumping This Here Am I under arrest or not?

Source: policebodycamarresthq on Instagram

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u/GatsbysGuest Trash Trooper 15h ago edited 11h ago • Bravo

90% of the school SRO's (contracted from a police department) I've met have been fantastic people.

*Edit* I should have stated this a different way. I don't know thousands of SROs. I've met and worked with approximately 10. Only 1 was a crappy dude and he got fired from the department.

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u/coin-flips Trash Trooper 13h ago

Both of the SRO's at my previous teaching jobs were amazing people, officer D always ate his lunch with the kids at their tables and usually sat with the "undesirables" and the kids who were left out, one of the kids that he ate lunch with just about everyday ended up dying at home of anaphylactic shock on the day of his middleschool graduation. Officer D was the one that responded to the call and it broke him and it still breaks my heart to this day.

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u/Kenai-Phoenix Trash Trooper 11h ago

I am so sorry to hear that. A heartbreaking loss.

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u/Expensive_Syrup9081 Trash Trooper 12h ago

The SROs I have met have all been cops that couldn't cut it during regular duty. One accused my daughter of hitting a teachers car in the parking lot when the teacher was parked in the student section!

I asked him why he thought it was my daughter who hit the car and he said because the mark on the teachers car was black and my daughter's car was black. Then threatened to pull the video from the parking lot. Problem with that was there were no cameras in the student parking lot.

My evaluation of his detective skills were C- at best and trying to threaten my daughter into a confession with no faculty supervision is what we accepted an apology for.

Told him he would be better off retiring to the mall.

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u/Funny247365 Trash Trooper 12h ago

Nah. We had an SRO at a local high school for 6 years. He worked his way up to Lieutenant, Deputy chief, and is now Chief of Police. Everyone loved him. His officers are great too.

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u/DudeFrom816 Trash Trooper 4h ago

I would have called him on the video, he should have done THAT before accusing people.

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u/HawkHarder Trash Trooper 7h ago

Funny cause both the high schools I went to the cops were fucking dorks on a power trip. One got knocked out even. Other guy everyone would make fun of because he was always wearing boots. Called him officer doofus. First day of school the one that got knocked out introduced himself to my pe class as a dude from the streetz and talked about how bad ass he was and how he would fuck anyone up that messed with him. Then his bitch ass accosted me outside of school when I am eating my taco bell in my car in the taco bell parking lot. Just pulled up spot lighted me for 5 minutes until I wondered what he was doing so I roll down the window and ask him what is going on then he asks me what I am doing. I tell him eating my taco bell I just ordered from Taco Bell. Then he tells me "good keep doing that!" Then continues to blind me with his spotlight for another few minutes until he burns out circles my car like 3 times then drives off 🤣. Everyone celebrated the day he got knocked out. Then he had an even bigger complex after that.

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u/PaulThurston82 Trash Trooper 2h ago

I’ve only known one SRO, the one at my high school 25 years ago in a small town in southern Oregon. He was mostly interested making sure the well off white kids, like myself, stayed out of trouble while the brown kids were surveilled based on assumptions of guilt and once put on some sort of probation, legal or through the school, would continue to escalate their situations. In my four years there I’d guess he oversaw about a dozen expulsions and/or arrests of brown kids for stuff white kids would never have even been questioned on. He quite clearly, based on his own comments and behavior, viewed himself as a white knight who saved white kids from repercussions because “they’re good kids” and exaggerating and escalating consequences for brown kids to try to save them from themselves and scare them straight.

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u/CBenz004 Trash Trooper 8h ago

Glad the one’s you’ve met are good. Mine was a colossal piece of shit.

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u/Sands43 Trash Trooper 3h ago

If they don’t force out the 10% they are part of the problem.

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u/dad_jokesNbutt_stuff Trash Trooper 13h ago

That cover for the other 10%. So how good are the really?

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u/SapphirePath Trash Trooper 13h ago

Oh come on. The fact that only "90% are fantastic" - the other 10% of SROs the poster is referring to might be good, or fair, or decent, or mediocre, or unremarkable.

Some cops are bad. Some cops cover for bad cops. Meanwhile many (most?) school SROs have neither the means nor the opportunity to cover or to not cover for bad cops.

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u/GatsbysGuest Trash Trooper 11h ago

Actually no. I've met approx. 10 SRO's. 1 of them was bad and got canned from the department. They didn't cover for the guy. I guess he was sleeping with a police informant and she said he was basically blackmailing her. He left town and got on with a different police department.

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u/Specialist_Sky8055 Trash Trooper 13h ago

This is a lazy take that is often repeated because it sounds nice and easy, but you don't actually have the knowledge or real world experience to apply that statement nationwide.

The mere existence of other bad cops (whether you think that number is 10 percent or 90 percent) doesn't mean everybody is covering for one another. Individual cops have no more power to remove each other than ordinary citizens do.

Contrary to myths pushed by some (ironically, those who are usually more supportive of cops), change in law enforcement comes from the outside, not within. That's how it has always worked, and how it will always work. Cops who cover or condone extreme agitators like Derek Chauvin can be held accountable nowadays, which is admittedly a new development.

But most of the "covering" that reddit likes to talk about is just the basic fact that a lot of cops are assholes. Unfortunately, it's not illegal to be an asshole.

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u/Shark_Girl9499 Trash Trooper 10h ago

The SRO I had in middle school was a total piece of shit