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Newsbrief:
DARE
Axed
in
Cincy
--
Dayton
Next?
8/16/02
DARE's star is starting to
fade fast. The popular but ineffective school anti-drug program is
losing cities by the week -- it has recently been dropped by Austin and
Houston, Spokane and Seattle, Omaha, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City and Toledo.
Last week, Cincinnati joined the list, and Dayton looks set to be next
to axe the program.
Citing the program's ineffectiveness
and the need to increase the city's police presence, the Cincinnati City
Council voted on August 8 to quit funding the DARE program, saving the
city $351,000 and putting seven DARE officers back on the streets.
"DARE has not been proven to be effective, and we desperately need more
uniformed officers on the street as a preventive force," said Councilman
James Tarbell.
The city had moved to revoke
DARE's funding once before, in 2000, but bowed to pressure from schools
and educators to restore the program. Not this time.
The next day, Dayton Police
Chief William McManus announced that his town could be next, saying he
wanted to reassign Dayton's five DARE officers to street patrols.
But no decision had been made yet, he said. "Recent studies have
raised questions about whether we could be putting our resources to better
use, but we haven't decided to cut the program yet," McManus told the Dayton
City Council.
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