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Fort Worth, TX, Police Chief Ralph Mendoza has eliminated funding
for Cowtown's Drug Abuse Resistance and Education (DARE) program.
DARE is widely used in elementary school drug prevention curricula
despite repeated studies that have found the program has little or
no impact on future drug use by participants. Mendoza told the
Fort Worth city council on Tuesday that the program had ended with
the school year and would not be reinstated in the fall.
"DARE has not been shown to reduce narcotics use by youth,"
Mendoza told the city council. "The program is too cumbersome and
doesn't have enough flexibility."
Mendoza's move came in response to a yearlong study that offered
266 specific recommendations for streamlining the police
department. In the department's first response to the $1.2
million study, Chief Mendoza also slashed the police gang-
prevention unit by more than half.
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Newsbrief: Fort Worth Police Chief Dares to Cut DARE
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for Cowtown's Drug Abuse Resistance and Education (DARE) program.
DARE is widely used in elementary school drug prevention curricula
despite repeated studies that have found the program has little or
no impact on future drug use by participants. Mendoza told the
Fort Worth city council on Tuesday that the program had ended with
the school year and would not be reinstated in the fall.
"DARE has not been shown to reduce narcotics use by youth,"
Mendoza told the city council. "The program is too cumbersome and
doesn't have enough flexibility."
Mendoza's move came in response to a yearlong study that offered
266 specific recommendations for streamlining the police
department. In the department's first response to the $1.2
million study, Chief Mendoza also slashed the police gang-
prevention unit by more than half.
--
Newsbrief: Fort Worth Police Chief Dares to Cut DARE
The Week Online has moved!
