Abstract
A police innovation of the 1950s, the position of school resource officer (SRO) did not gain prominence until the 1990s in the wake of several school shootings in the United States. Currently, just over one‐third of US schools employ SROs (also known as school police officers or school liaison officers) at all levels of K‐12 and in every part of the country. In addition, SRO programs have spread across the globe from Canada to the nation of Georgia. However, the emergence of SROs has not been without controversy, including concerns that their presence criminalizes student behavior and may lead to unwarranted arrests for relatively minor infractions.
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