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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.

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