Long Beach Youth Activities &
Dale Brown
D.A.R.E. America
Director of Regional Operations
DARE Program Used by America's Safest Cities
Dale Brown
DARE America Director of Regional Operations
Congratulations to the City of Irvine for being recognized as the safest big city in the United States!
I believe there are many things involved in creating a formula to produce safe cities but while looking at the list I noticed that in every population category for safest cities the first or second place city teaches the D.A.R.E. program. Conversely, none of the most dangerous cities in each population category use the program.
Although we don’t pretend that D.A.R.E. is solely responsible for making cities safe, there is no question that D.A.R.E. is a key component of the comprehensive efforts made by the Irvine Police Department to achieve these results.
For more than 20 years D.A.R.E. has been an important part of community policing by providing positive contacts with the public, creating partnerships between police, parents and teachers and building relationships between the police and kids while teaching them how to avoid drugs and violence. The D.A.R.E. curriculum is all new, science-based and undergoing the most rigorous research of any drug prevention program in the nation. D.A.R.E. works.
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