“I look at it as a way to try to build relationships with students and if you can build those positive relationships and get them strong nice and early the chance of having to deal with a student at least in my mind on a negative aspect is less”

“you know hear kids all the time talking about officer Joe and just how important he is or officer Kyle and how they're able to talk to him and um that just plays a significant role as kids are out in the community in the event anything does happen in the future um those relationships are established and there's a sense of trust”

“I wanted to get into the position because I want to make connections I want to try to help uh kids when they're maybe a little bit younger in terms of trying to make good decisions”

“often times when you um ask students whether or not they want SRO in the schools the students will tell us that they do”