For Denver's returning SRO program, the Board of Education is being forced to use the same school resource officers rejected by DPS in June 2020, with district sources telling Westword that these DPD officers are all they have right now.
, the Board of Education is being forced to use the very same school resource officers rejected by DPS in June 2020, with district sources telling"As SRO training is lengthy, and our emergency suspension of EL10.10 only extends through June 30, we anticipated that DPD would utilize previous SROs in fulfilling our urgent request," confirms BOE president Xochitl Gaytan.
As a result, DPS students will have to walk the halls with some of the same SROs who weren't able to properly police them the first time around, according to BOE's 2020 ruling on their overuse of force. According to district sources, the DPD just doesn't have any cops on hand who can do"For some school communities, the local SRO had a unique working relationship with the leadership and the school," Gaytan says.
"SROs will undergo extensive training in the areas that the Board of Education requested in our memo which was approved yesterday," Gaytan says, adding that it is"important to note that many of the systemic issues Denver students experienced with SROs in the past were due to the nature in how they were utilized by school administrators." Now, the armed officers will be patrolling by a completely different set of rules.
District sources describe Denver's re-implementation of the SRO program as"a quick emergency situation," and admit that things may not be perfect at the beginning. Since the program is only in place for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year, the main objective is to gather data and see how the new SRO practices work out, so that officials can weed out any bad apples who don't fall in line with the new policing guidelines.
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