National Assessment of School Resource Officer Programs: Survey of Students in Three Large New SRO Programs

摘要

Relying on past research on School Resource Officer (SRO) programs, there were several questions we sought to answer. These research questions can be broken down into two basic concerns: (1) what factors in an SRO program affect students comfort level for reporting crimes and (2) what factors in an SRO program affect students perception of safety. In this report, we examine SRO programs in four schools districts. We were primarily concerned with what variables affect students comfort level reporting crimes to the SRO and perceptions of safety. The analysis was driven by data obtained through surveys of 907 students.