Congratulations to the City
of Irvine for being recognized as the safest big city in the United States!
I believe there are many
things involved in creating a formula to produce safe cities but while looking
at the list I noticed that
in every population category for safest cities
the first or second place city teaches the D.A.R.E. program. Conversely, none of
the most dangerous cities in each population category use the program.
Although we don’t pretend
that D.A.R.E.
is solely responsible for making cities safe, there is no question
that D.A.R.E.
is a key component of the comprehensive efforts made by the
Irvine Police Department to achieve these results.
For more than 20 years
D.A.R.E. has been an important part of Community policing by providing positive
contacts with the public, creating partnerships between police, parents and
teachers and building relationships between the police and kids while teaching
them how to avoid drugs and violence. The
D.A.R.E.
curriculum is all new,
science-based and undergoing the most rigorous research of any drug prevention
program in the nation.
D.A.R.E. works!
