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Retired Pekin Police DARE Officer fighting to bring back DARE

Retired DARE Officer Bill MAddox contacted the IDOA with a request to help him in a fight to bring back DARE. 

Below is a list of talking point brought forward.

 If you can help BIll to refute these points or strengthen his argument please contact him at: warmaddox@comcast.net

 

Cessation of DARE by Pekin Police Department and District 108

Talking Points 

  1. Effective with the 2010-2011 school year, the D.A.R.E. program in Pekin will cease.  This is a mutual decision between the Pekin Police Department and Pekin Public School District 108 and will extend into the parochial schools as well.  While this decision was not primarily driven by funding issues, it does follow in the wake of the State’s notification that it will no longer support DARE through local funding as it has in the past.
  2. D.A.R.E. was developed by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1983.  The Pekin Police Department’s DARE program started in 1987.  It involves having a police officer teach a curriculum from D.A.R.E. America to 5th grade students in Pekin Schools.
  2. D.A.R.E. has been overwhelmingly been found to be ineffective (see studies listed below).  Despite its ineffectiveness, D.A.R.E. has been a very popular program including in Pekin.
  2. Pekin Public School District 108 has developed an educational component to replace the D.A.R.E. curriculum and Pekin Police officers will continue to assist, visit, and otherwise be involved with Pekin’s children at our schools.
  2. At a time of shrinking resources, it is imperative that we utilize our officers effectively.  The officer previously assigned D.A.R.E. duties performed it part-time during the school year.  Those hours will be transformed into more hours on the street.

Studies Demonstrating the Ineffectiveness of D.A.R.E.

1992                    Indiana University

1994          National Institute of Justice

1995          California Department of Education

1998          National Institute of Justice

1999          American Psychological Association

2001          United States Surgeon General

 

See also:    http://www.alcoholfacts.org/DARE.html

                  http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/Library/daremenu.htm

                  http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/youthissues/1059145293.html

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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