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Board debates SRO program after district reports arrest counts and racial breakdowns
Summary
Police and district staff told the Board that school resource officers handled thousands of calls and made arrests for serious offenses; commissioners pressed for data disaggregation by school, breakdowns of admonishments versus arrests, historical comparisons and concern about disproportionate arrests of African American students.
The San Francisco Police Department and district staff presented an update on the School Resource Officer (SRO) program at the Board meeting on Oct. 10, reporting staffing levels, incident counts and demographic breakdowns, and prompting extended questions from board members about data and policy.
Lieutenant Fatou said 30 officers serve SFUSD schools this year either full time or splitting time between sites, that SROs also teach gang-risk education and run youth programs, and that from August 28 through Oct. 6 the unit received 126 police reports after responding to 852 calls for service. For the 2005–06 school year the…
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