I used to know a professor who worked in DARE for a research project on the effectiveness of the DARE program. Over two year study and many interviews with parents, teachers, school districts about the program. He discovered that the program did nothing of value for anyone while it wasted taxpayer money. The only reason it was kept in schools around the country was that parents loved the idea of having police officers in their child's school. One day he had to present his report to the DOJ. They looked over it and decided to keep DARE active anyway despite the evidence proving that the program was wasting money and it really wasn't working as intended. Getting the news afterward pissed him off and one student asked about the DARE program one day in class, this Prof went on a insightful three hour rant about how the DARE program was shit. Gloves off too.