Originally Posted by
kwb377
I retired from full-time LE in Dec. 2018. Just before I left the State, the now-Chief at my initial city agency asked me to come work as an SRO (part-time, just during school hours, off holidays/summer). He was also my SWAT, Motor, etc. Sergeant when I worked at the City.
Years back when I worked Patrol, the SRO position was generally for those not cut out to hack the street. I asked my friend, "Do I have to teach DARE classes or wear a damn McGruff the Crime Dog outfit?".
His response, "Hell no...you're just their to shoot some muthafucker in the face if they come into that school to harm anyone. You don't have a problem with that, do you? [emoji846]"
Nope...sign me up. I'll shoot them in the face until momma won't recognize them.
Instead of standing in one spot for 48 minutes and cowering, I've told our Patrol guys that they better hurry and get on-scene to stop me from sawing said shitbag's head off with my folding knife and sticking it on a pole out front of the school.
But the hiring pool of retired officers for the SRO position is pretty shallow. We have a couple of guys that retired from an adjoining large city agency. Their firearms proficiency, admitted by them, is lackluster. On a recent range day one told us, "At BPD, it usually took me three or four tries to qualify". And he seemed astounded that the rest of us shot 100 on the first attempt.