Seasonal & Holidays
Please Consider Supporting D.A.R.E.'s Toy Drive For The Holidays
A 10-Week Course Administered By Law Enforcement Officers- It Teaches Kids To Resist Drugs, Alcohol & Gangs and Educates About Bullying.
According to the organization's website, "more than 15,000 D.A.R.E. officers and deputies are in over 10,000 communities nationwide educating America’s youth and serving as the first line of defense in America’s schools. The D.A.R.E. program is taught in all 50 states, U.S. territories, and 50+ other countries."
The Program was created by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1983, but in 2002, the L.A. Times ran a story about the Department's staffing shortages and how more than a third of the officers has been transferred out of D.A.R.E. to other posts, but the LAPD had pushed back against a proposal to eliminate the program completely, as reported, it was considered "one of the department's proudest accomplishments and one of the few focusing on crime prevention."
Sgt. Guillen at the West Hollywood Sheriff's station says Weho's officers work in conjunction with the L.A.P.D.'s modified D.A.R.E. program and he gave the Sheriff Department's AOK about making donations to the national office of D.A.R.E., saying "We are not in competition but headed on a parallel path to the same destination."