“You’re betting that the child that you bring into this will be at least as happy as you’ve been, at least as fortunate as you’ve been, or, at a minimum, that they’ll be able to say they’re happy they were born. Everyone says life is both good and bad, but the majority of people think it’s mostly good. That’s why people go through with it. The odds are decent. Sure, everyone dies eventually, but life has meaning, even pain and suffering have meaning, and there’s so much joy. There’s not a doubt in your mind that your child will see it that way, just like you. No one thinks they’ll pull the short straw. They’re convinced everything will work out fine. But that’s just people believing what they want to believe. For their own benefit. The really horrible part is that this bet isn’t yours to make. You’re betting with another person’s life. Not yours.”
You guys are always like "being crushed by 10,000 tons of rock probably feels good as hell" or "being torn to pieces by hunting dogs would low key fix me" and I feel like those things would actually be unpleasant.
According to the school policing project, in 1999, there were "almost 10,000 School Resource Officers"
According to a 2018 study, at that time there were "[..]between 14,000 and 20,000 SRO's assigned[..]" (page 2/26 or pagenr. 406)
This is a 4-10,000 increase, but there are no exact numbers as there is no centralized data on SRO's.
In 2025, according to schoolpolicingdata, there are 46,000 SRO's in American schools
A 2021 study found SRO's don't prevent shootings. The amount of shootings per year backs this up because if they did, surely the amount of shootings would decrease as the amount of SRO's increases.
As of June 19, 116 school shooting incidents were recorded in K-12 schools in the United States in 2025.
Note: this is a June 2025 graph, and as such, the 2025 amount is much lower than it will be after the full year. This is not an indication of decrease, it is incomplete data for 2025
Even in the case where a shooting has started and it is thus easy to tell if an sro did or did not stop it, only two out of 200 incidents were actually stopped by an sro (2018 washington post analysis)
In the 2015-2016 academic year alone "more than 291,100 students were referred or subjected to school-related arrest" (2018 study). This not only makes the 1 million number likely, but possibly even an understatement
For Shavonda Sisson, the idea of police officers patrolling the halls of her son’s school is terrifying.
This is mostly true, the 10,000 number is guesswork
this has probably been pointed out before but I was rewatching dmc and I noticed davy jones uses his tentacles to keep his hat on when the ship goes underwater
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