The Village » Police https://www.cbcfinc.org/thevillage Real People. Real Talk. Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:57:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Is the Man in Blue Still a Friend to You? https://www.cbcfinc.org/thevillage/2013/11/21/is-the-man-in-blue-still-a-friend-to-you/ https://www.cbcfinc.org/thevillage/2013/11/21/is-the-man-in-blue-still-a-friend-to-you/#comments Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:35:02 +0000 http://www.cbcfinc.org/thevillage/?p=821

Recently, a colleague of mine shared an article on the D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program. D.A.R.E was developed in 1983 in Los Angeles as a means to foster positive relationships between area elementary school students and local law enforcement—specifically, the police. Once a week, local law enforcement agents would spend an hour with students teaching the students about drug and substance abuse prevention and teaching them how to resist peer pressure.

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