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Uvalde rekindles school police officer’s looming fears

Don Bridges, who started a school resource officer program in suburban Baltimore in 1989, participates in a forum at the National Association of School Resource Officers convention in Aurora, Colo., on July 5, 2022. Bridges saw the program as a way to build relationships between students and law enforcement after seeing too many people who looked like him getting arrested when he worked in patrol. He said having police in schools does not lead to Black students being targeted when officers are properly trained. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Don Bridges, who started a school resource officer program in suburban Baltimore in 1989, speaks at the National Association of School Resource Officers convention in Aurora, Colo., on July 5, 2022. Bridges saw the program as a way to build relationships between students and law enforcement after seeing too many people who looked like him getting arrested when he worked in patrol. He said having police in schools does not lead to Black students being targeted when officers are properly trained. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Student resource officer Lt. Sandra F. Calloway-Crimm, from the Valley School District in Valley, Ala., discusses her job while attending a convention, Tuesday, July 5, 2022, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Student resource officer Tony Ramaeker, from Elkhorn, Neb., heads up an escalator while attending a convention, Tuesday, July 5, 2022, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Uvalde rekindles school police officer’s looming fears