DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a program designed to discourage drug use and violence among school age children. DARE's origins can be traced to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and a chief of police who helped create a drug education and prevention program he believed was effective. It spread rapidly, and by the late 1990s DARE was operating in all 50 states and many countries (Lundman 2001). Part of the reason DARE worked was because of its mutual effort between the police department, the school, parents, and community leaders. DARE works because it surrounds childre...

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The worst violent crime of the twentieth century happened at 9:02am on April 19th, 1995. ... (Camp,1995) Later that morning a 1977 yellow Mercury was pulled over by police in the small town of Perry, Oklahoma, which is some seventy-five miles from Oklahoma City (Ottley, 1995). ...

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s latest riot, brought on by an innocent verdict handed down to white police officers in the beating of a black motorist named Rodney King during April of 1992.# This could be the destructive Watts riots of 1965, in which thirty-four people lost their lives during the civil rights movement.# This could also be the "Zoot-Suit" riots of 1943, spurred on by a highly publicized murder, sensationalized in a racially biased press. ...

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