Opposition Grows Over SRO Program
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- February
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State lawmakers have been coming out swinging over Gov. Spitzer’s plan to redeploy state troopers away from schools and racinos to the streets of high-crime areas in the state, including Rochester.
Yet lawmakers and school officials have said they need the police in the schools and otherwise would struggle to afford the cost of supplying officers themselves. Moreover, local communities have protested taking the troopers out for the video lottery terminal parlors.
Today, state Sen. Michael Nozzolio, chairman of the Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections Committee, came out against Spitzer’s proposal and wrote a letter to State Police Superintendent Preston Felton.
“I recognize the value of Operation IMPACT,” Nozzolio said. “However, I believe that directing more State Troopers toward this initiative at the expense of the School Resource Officer program will ultimately detract from New York’s efforts to combat violent, gang, and drug-related crime. I am writing to you to express my opposition to this proposal on the grounds that School Resource Officers are indispensable public safety assets in the communities they serve.”
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
