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lofty ideas and words, and we’ve heard them all before usually from people who move here and think they have all the answers us local rubes haven’t thought of 100 times already or those who move from district to district seeking political office where evr one opens up Elmira has a lot of other bigger problems besides a shell of a pool that’s not even the original one built in the 20s

I dont say much on here but ive even reading these topics and recognising a couple names so i did some looking into it how many times can people move around and run for office ? you got one running for mayor who ran for legislature in catlin, and a campaign manager. whose run for mayor of corning a couple time and then suddenly the next year for county legislator here in chemung county you've jumped on two topics that are hot and ion peoples minds and say we lack imagination like were a bunch of rubes but were smarter than you think makes me wonder what the real agenda is here with all this hopping from place to place

I'm pretty sure the students at Southside High in 2001 were very happy to have an armed School Resource Officer that they could report concerns to. And he calmly approached and disarmed the would-be killer....instead of "shooting first and asking questions later". Source CNN

I agree it would be nice to see the police walking the beat so to speak. Also doing things to engage kids and the public. The trading cards they did in the laste 80's early 90's was great. The kids interacted with every officer they saw trying to collect the whole set. Most SROs in the school do a good job of interacting with kids, but seeing a cop walk your neighborhood and knowing him is a different type of relationship.

Are SROs armed? Silly question. There is no need for any cop interacting directly with the public to be armed (and primed to shoot first and ask questions later.) Few members of the public will want to approach an officer who might shoot them before hearing what they have to say.