Yep, officer Davis was my SRO back in the early 2000's. He was known for harassing kids at school AND purposefully being the cop to bust kids after hours for smoking weed and such. He fucking hated teenagers
Jesus, that's so fucked up. I'm not surprised that he's still there, though. I remember ours manhandled the shit out of thus freshman I knew. The kid was a shit talker but he was like maybe 110 lbs soaking wet. He also just absolutely relished in intimidating us. He had held me and my friends for over an hour trying to sweat us when he came up on us at the park. It was a regular occurrence, threatening that he would call our parents or throw us in juvi. It was demented.
Yeah, that's about normal. Usually the excuse when they hurt innocent kids was "well, they aren't angels, and he was right to suspect them". Which was always used against poor kids.
The SRO was black, but that didn't stop him from being racist either. But he dished it out to basically any of the latchkey kids who were caught with joints at any point during highschool or middle school.
All the SROs for elementary through highschool knew each other, so they'd pass on "trouble kid" lists and those lists became self fulfilling prophecies for the most part.
Damn, my highschool's SRO at least bothered to break up fights... though all the fights I saw him get involved in were girl fights... but to be fair dude's usually scheduled their fights for after school so there werent many guys fighting in school. But anyway.
Honestly I dont have any horror stories about my SRO but my school wasn't racially diverse and I was white. I was neurodivergent though and did have meltdowns but the SRO never got involved. Also I think he didnt exist in my freshman year where I had the most meltdowns? Idr though. But yeah the only thing I remember him ever doing was breaking up girl fights.
ETA: just to be clear, my individual experiance does not justify the existance of pigs in schools. (Or pigs at all).
One of our cops had a car chase with a student after school. Ended up ramming the kid from behind and totaling the kid's truck in a ditch. Kid got a fractured wrist. The stated reason is the kid was speeding (he wasn't) and resisting arrest since the kid didn't immediately pull over (there was nowhere to pull over on that road).
Yep, officer Davis was my SRO back in the early 2000's. He was known for harassing kids at school AND purposefully being the cop to bust kids after hours for smoking weed and such. He fucking hated teenagers
Our SRO broke a kids knee because he thought he had something in his backpack. He didn't. He's still SRO
Jesus, that's so fucked up. I'm not surprised that he's still there, though. I remember ours manhandled the shit out of thus freshman I knew. The kid was a shit talker but he was like maybe 110 lbs soaking wet. He also just absolutely relished in intimidating us. He had held me and my friends for over an hour trying to sweat us when he came up on us at the park. It was a regular occurrence, threatening that he would call our parents or throw us in juvi. It was demented.
Yeah, that's about normal. Usually the excuse when they hurt innocent kids was "well, they aren't angels, and he was right to suspect them". Which was always used against poor kids.
The SRO was black, but that didn't stop him from being racist either. But he dished it out to basically any of the latchkey kids who were caught with joints at any point during highschool or middle school.
All the SROs for elementary through highschool knew each other, so they'd pass on "trouble kid" lists and those lists became self fulfilling prophecies for the most part.
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Damn, my highschool's SRO at least bothered to break up fights... though all the fights I saw him get involved in were girl fights... but to be fair dude's usually scheduled their fights for after school so there werent many guys fighting in school. But anyway.
Honestly I dont have any horror stories about my SRO but my school wasn't racially diverse and I was white. I was neurodivergent though and did have meltdowns but the SRO never got involved. Also I think he didnt exist in my freshman year where I had the most meltdowns? Idr though. But yeah the only thing I remember him ever doing was breaking up girl fights.
ETA: just to be clear, my individual experiance does not justify the existance of pigs in schools. (Or pigs at all).
One of our cops had a car chase with a student after school. Ended up ramming the kid from behind and totaling the kid's truck in a ditch. Kid got a fractured wrist. The stated reason is the kid was speeding (he wasn't) and resisting arrest since the kid didn't immediately pull over (there was nowhere to pull over on that road).