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Good luck getting a highly trained and tactically proficient officer to accept a position as an SRO. Those guys want to be on the street where the action is. In many departments you can't just assign someone to a specialty position. If I was forced to work in a school every day I would quit and go somewhere else.
SRO's are generally the older and less fit officers who are looking for a couple of easy years before retirement. Often they're great at every aspect of that job except for the one time someone shows up and starts shooting. Law enforcement has so many different facets to it nowadays that the skill and demeanor that allows one to be effective at one area can work against them in others. It's extremely difficult to maintain an edge in a place when nothing ever happens 99.9 percent of the time.
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