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DARE anti-drug programs. Remember those? >> Remember DARE from school? Y'all remember DARE? >> A cop will come to your school, open up a briefcase of drugs, >> try to scare kids away from drugs by sending cops into schools. >> You guys remember that? You remember how bad this program was? >> This is the 2001 board of directors for the DARE program. Before I show you who's on it, I want you to ask yourself, who would you want running DARE? Maybe social scientists or educators. These people are going to wield the power of the police and shape how millions of children view drugs, crimes, and their own body. All right, ready? If you said four billionaires, 18 multi-millionaires, their lawyers, three cops, one of whom is a convicted felon, two who are involved in corruption scandals, their friends, the NFL player who's at the center of RFK's assassination conspiracy theories, a boxer who reportedly uses steroids, two people on the Epstein list, and this guy who, after the FBI did an undercover sting, caught him trying to launder money to cover up a cocaine trafficking operation. Uh, if you said that, then you'd be right. >> The DARE program is it's nonsense. I mean, we can be honest about it. >> By 1995, DARE, or drug abuse resistance education, was in 75% of all American school districts. They sent thousands of police officers into tens of thousands of elementary schools to teach 10-year-olds to say no to drugs. It was backed by presidents. People like these DARE officers are making a real impression. >> Celebrities, >> little kids doing drugs. >> It even got its own national holiday. 114 million Americans went through DARE. That's 34% of the entire population. >> What we were talking about are the consequences for using marijuana and not using marijuana. >> I just want to shake some sense of you kids that are using drugs and think about using. So your memo don't. >> And then we found out that it didn't work. >> Cheers. Cheers. >> A while back, Mia and I were talking about the DARE program >> because genuinely, what the [ __ ] >> Specifically, how bad its failure was. Some studies, like this one, found that dare students were more likely than non-dair students to experiment with drugs. Whoops. >> How did that happen? >> Totally. >> And then Mia had a question. >> Everyone knows about DARE. Everyone knows that it failed. But what I'm missing is like, did they not test that it worked? Like the people that made it. >> For years, DARE has been laughed at. >> Just say >> now to crash. >> Trendy, goofy teens wear their t-shirt around to mock its demise. We all came up with our own theories as to why DARE didn't work. We kind of dismissed it as yet another failed government program. And we never properly investigated the private corporation, a nonprofit that uh often doesn't act like one, that somehow was able to get a dysfunctional drug program and police officers into your school and mine. This video was supposed to be a nostalgic explainer of America's biggest accident. But over the past 4 months, we've been combing through thousands of documents, interviewing cops, historians, journalists, and discovered that behind this program is a buried story using high-powered lawyers attacking journalists and researchers when they tried to bring the truth to light. The people at DARE ruined careers to protect themselves. I want to show you all of this because when you look at the people who were behind the program, you start to see what DARE was really all about. >> I will say no drugs. I will tell my friends say no. I will stand up for what I know is right. >> And then 12-year-old kids were like, "Okay, crack sounds fun." >> And then all the kids would be like, "Now I want drugs." clandestine meeting in the Mojave Desert. Illegal guns being sent to the Contra by the CIA. >> They did studies that showed that it's actually ineffective, in some case actually harmful. >> The story that's told is that DARE had good intentions, that they built a program that they thought would work and it just didn't. However, I quickly learned there's a lot more to that story. After talking with Mia, I went out and picked up this book. It was written by a professor of history at Ball State University. And uh it's phenomenal, but there's one part that left me with way more questions than answers. So, I reached out. [Music] In 1983, a group of researchers affiliated with USC just wrapped up a meeting with the Los Angeles School Board. It's not like they didn't have drug prevention effort going on. The LA Unified School District actually had been piloting a program called Project Smart. >> The researchers in charge of Project Smart were leaving a schoolboard meeting when a man approaches them. >> Actually approached the Project Smart researchers. >> His name was Daryl Gates. >> And Gates is kind of like, well, what if we we can take the Project Smart and just have the police do, you know, teach it. Having serious objections to police involvement, they said no. But according to one of Gates's right-hand men, >> if you told Gates that he was wrong, he would crush you. >> What do you mean? What do you mean by that? Cuz 114 million kids went through this program. So what do you mean he'll crush you? What do you mean by that? >> This idea of like if only they had known does not apply. They [ __ ] knew. Did they knew? Did they know? >> So, so the smart researchers agreed to share their findings. They had been testing two different approaches. One of them they found didn't work. And >> they said, you know, we found that this affective component wasn't working. We've dropped it. We don't use that anymore cuz we found that it was not having the right effects. >> These researchers had found that it made kids more likely to do drugs >> before it launched. >> Before it launched. And that's what they told him. >> The other side of it, what they called peer resistance training was more effective. What ends up happening, there's no real documentation of why this occurred, is that they kept the affective education component in. >> So the part that they knew didn't work. >> Dare kept that piece in. What do you take from that? Is this just a PR stunt or do you think there might be other stuff going on behind the scenes? Well, with Gates, there's always other stuff going on. >> This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. >> Any questions? >> Max's book is a phenomenal breakdown of DARE's expansion, its impacts on culture, policing, the nuances of the hundreds of studies that went into DARE. But I want to show you a completely different angle. >> Yeah. All right. That's right. >> Okay. So, I talked to this guy. He's a former cop and he was there like he worked directly under the founder of DARE when and where it was created. >> Okay. >> And I think the problem is that we all just kind of assumed that DARE's failure was a big mistake. [Music] Let me just show you what he said. >> Why are we doing this program? you know, and cuz that's internally that's what most people thought. So, why are we doing this? >> Wait, tell me more about that. >> They just thought um it was a ridiculous idea. Most people within the apartments, everybody said it's not going to work. >> What? Okay. Marijuana. Oh, was it good? When one of the smart researchers learned that Dare was using the effective approach, he reached out to try to help fix it. But Dare was never interested, speculating that Dare had other motives. Dare didn't need fixing. What it needed was money and friends in high places. Though not technically true, the point still stands. Another smart researcher put it bluntly. Dair had never talked to a scientist until it got into some trouble in 1993 when DARE was already in 52% of school districts. Making the question, if their goal wasn't efficacy, what was it? >> It is truly my great pleasure to welcome DARE to NASDAQ. >> It's June 4th, 1968. A 15-year-old boy walks into the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He's there on an assignment for his high school newspaper. US Senator Robert F. Kennedy is in town and he's giving a speech at the hotel. The boy's assignment is to take photos of it. >> My thanks to all of you. And now it's on to Chicago and let's win there. >> Following the speech, the 15-year-old is following the senator around, snapping photos. When [Music] Senator Kennedy had been shot. >> He's been shot. That's right. >> A former NFL player named Rosie Greer subdued Sirhon Sirhan, who we now know as the assassin of Robert Kennedy. Realizing that Kennedy had just been shot, the high school photographer starts taking photos of everything he can. Then the LAPD appears. The boy is detained. All his photos, three entire rolls of film, are taken from him. 2 months later, the LAPD secretly burns 2,410 photos taken during the investigation. In time, they also destroy ceiling panels with bullet holes in them, X-rays of those ceiling panels, and spectrographic analyses of the bullets. [Music] Why would you do that? It's all quite suspicious. During this time, a young officer at the LAPD is climbing the ranks. His name is Daryl Gates and he was just in charge of the intelligence division, but got a promotion to be assistant chief. >> He was a narcissist and his ego was beyond belief. >> Gates is about to build an infamous reputation. a man who Pulzer Prizew winning journalists have called egoomaniacal and paranoid. He is responsible for the creation of the SWAT team. >> Oh. >> And commits a move that will change policing forever. >> A brutal, unprovoked raid on the Black Panthers. Meanwhile, the intelligence division that Gates oversaw breaks off into two different categories. the Organized Crime Intelligence Division or OCID and the Public Disorder Intelligence Division or PDI. Almost immediately, the PDI neglects its mission to serve public disorder and focuses on the real enemy, building dossas on journalists, labor unions, civil rights groups, public servants, anti-war activists, and the mayor. Of course, >> this this paranoia that the LAPD had under Daryl Gates extended way beyond the city of LA. He had officers undercover all around the world. >> I know this guy sounds like a conspiracy theorist, but he's actually a Pulzer Prizewinning investigative journalist. Check yourself. >> Part of what you were revealing, he had like hundreds of people, right? >> He had we Well, we don't know how many he had. >> We're not talking FBI. This LAPD, a local municipal police force. Hundreds of agents undercover and some of them internationally. >> Hundreds of agents in the unit that supervised the undercover officers. >> Soon the PDI starts to get in trouble. They got caught running covert intelligence missions by sending undercover officers into schools. not to investigate a crime, but instead to build political dossas, signifying that the LAPD and Daryl Gates are becoming increasingly obsessed with power. And it's working. Legions of police officers are starting to look towards Daryl Gates for their next move. Watergate. The White House called it a third rate burglary, but it escalated into the worst political scandal in American history. >> I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> In the wake of the Watergate scandal, America started to wake up. The government wasn't just watching its enemies anymore. It was watching everyone. The FBI ran co-intel pro. And the CIA was doing the same through Operation MH Chaos. local, state, and federal agencies all got in on it. So, cities, states, Congress started pushing back, passing laws like this one. These laws say if you're spying on someone, if there's no crime committed, you have to delete the file. Around this same time, they expand the Freedom of Information Act. And this guy, a congressman from New York, wants answers. He wants to know what really happened to Robert F. Kennedy. So he looks at LA and starts asking questions. A memo makes its way up the chain of command to Daryl Gates responding point by point to the representatives questions. A key photograph taken during the investigation of the assassination was kept secret by Los Angeles police who feared it might contradict official statements. The existence of this photograph is believed to be unknown by anyone outside of this department and that the LAPD deliberately kept this a secret. [Music] Soon after the California Supreme Court comes down on the LAPD saying you can't send undercover cops into schools if there's no crime. You can't do this. Then the LA Board of Police Commissioners orders Daryl Gates's precious PDI to destroy 1.9 million dossas. The world that Gates built of power, secrecy, and surveillance is officially under threat. Gates's chief gets summoned to DC. The Senate Intelligence Committee wants names. Everyone that's spying for the LAPD. The chief waged a war. His response was a clear declaration that the LAPD was going rogue. It will be a cold day in hell when I provide you with the information you've requested. Back in LA, one of the PDI spies gets a quiet order. We're not going to destroy the records. We want you to hide them. 3 years later, Daryl Gates is promoted to chief, inheriting total control of a rogue, loyal militarized force with an elite spy network. Daryl Gates is then blessed with a gift directly from the CIA gods themselves. These new laws didn't say that spying was illegal. They just said that if no crime was committed, you shall maintain no record. Representative Larry McDonald, chair of the right-wing advocacy group known for its conspiracy theories, teams up with his buddies to create the Western Goals Foundation, a domestic intelligence agency. >> Those guys came up with the idea of setting up this company to do what the FBI couldn't do. There is one thing that these new laws cannot regulate. Of course, of course, private businesses. The LAPD funnels its hidden records to the ultra-conservative mini deep state. >> He got the files from PDI >> and ramps up. >> 200 groups were infiltrated over the course of a couple years. Spies are sent to the city council, journalists, academics, the ACLU, celebrities, LGBTQ activists, labor unions, and the political left. >> And those were being provided to Western goals. >> We were told at one time that there were no undercover agents in this chamber. That in fact there was an undercover agent. You've had officers infiltrating peaceful organizations, law-abiding organizations, infiltrating this council chamber, reporting on what councilmen have said, reporting on roll calls of councilmen. And you're telling me that you're proud of the efforts that have >> You seem to know a great deal for a statement that says you don't know anything. Now, what is it? Do you know everything or do you don't know everything? >> I do, too. Yes. Yes. >> Yes, Mr. Bernardi. I believe so. >> We'd we'd come to work and there'd be a helicopter over our building, right? They'd be monitoring us, coming and going and everything. And uh you know we'd stand there like going like this at the helicopter. >> Journalist Dave Lindorf was a target for the PDI. >> The helicopter would follow me at night. One time they followed me all the way home. They were shining their light on me. >> Dave and 143 others sue Daryl Gates backed by the ACLU. Things get hot. Gates strikes back, winning a totally separate case against the ACLU. Undercover cops can operate in schools as long as they're targeting drug dealers. The ACLU plans to appeal. All they have to do is prove one thing, that Gates will abuse that power. So, the ACLU focuses their attention on the PDI case. The city attorney representing Gates opens an unlocked file cabinet. He runs to the press, calling PDI a clandestine band of zealots who abuse every single moral and ethical precept. The judge says they're going to order the police to release the files, but before they do, the news breaks. Gates has been funneling intelligence to Western goals. This it's fully public. People are seeing this. They're hearing this. It is a huge deal. This is not good for Gates. >> They weren't overly concerned until the ACLU got in PDI. >> The ACLU starts closing in. >> We started was called the purge, destroying tens of thousands of documents. We had two commercial shredders. We burned two of them up. They knew they're going to lose this lawsuit. >> Gates runs to the school board and pitches an idea. Drug education taught by police, not for one class, but have them stay there. >> When it came to spying, he had no rules. >> School district is like, "You are nuts. A program cannot be developed overnight." Gates approaches smart researchers saying, "Use my cops for your program." They say no. >> They would send their files on leftist groups to Western Goals and then Western Goals would make them accessible to the FBI. >> Western Goals gets added as a defendant right as soon as they enter the Iran Contra funding network by funding rebels in Nicaragua with the CIA. The founder of Western Goals gets on a plane to South Korea. Soviet fighters approach, shoot the plane down. He dies. The ACLU goes on the offense. The CIA notices that all of this is happening. LAPD, MH Chaos type activities, ACLU legal action. The CIA sends two agents to LA. And Gates sends 10 cops to 50 elementary schools. The official launch of DARE. >> And that's when the city settled. Daryl Gates loved spying, but so does the internet, which is why I use Surf Shark, the sponsor of this video. With Surf SharkVPN, you can connect to the internet in 100 different countries around the world, and then see what they see. 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Yo, Drew, I got that stuff I was telling you about. >> No. Sometimes the best answer is the simplest one. You have the power. Just say no to drugs. Years passed by. Dare slowly grew. But there was one problem. Money. Police can't take money from any person who is engaged in business for gain. But if those same officers go out and start a private nonprofit, then now it's not the LAPD asking, it's a private charity. Then that private nonprofit can take the money and pass it off to the police department. Totally passes the sniff test. Like it's totally totally above board. Super happy that things work this way. God. Today this is actually totally normal. They're called police foundations. And if you never heard of it, according to police foundations.org, or that's the point. These police foundations can't legally imply that any donor will be able to influence official actions or get anything in return, but there's low transparency. Critics call these dark money slush funds. The LAPD creates one called the CPAC, which turns into Dare California and then in turn DARE America. They throw some fundraisers inviting who critics would call dark money. They throw this fundraiser gala for DARE, the dinner chair of the gala, which like whatever, I don't [ __ ] know what that means, is a luxury goods and jewelry mogul. And he lands a seat on Dare America's board of directors. A banker shows up, a developer shows up, they make the board, too. An attorney attends. Her son is suddenly on the board. The whole event netting dare more than $760,000 is paid for by a banker and Michael Milin, the man who would later get indicted for stock manipulation, insider trading, tax evasion, and become known as the junk bond king. Michael Milin, friend of Dare. I guess that's that's crazy. How did that happen? How do they know each other? This is a duck. You can tell because it walks like one and it talks like one. In all my life, I've learned that if something says that it's one thing, but then it acts a different way. You should ask questions. A good one to start with is how is it walking and how is it talking? Dar's first year was a trial run. Year two, oops, cop shoots a revolver in a classroom. Year three, though, something different happens. >> Oh, kids turning in their parents for drug use. >> Even though DARE is still small, six kids turn their parents in in a 3month period. From the early days, DARE has to come up with this policy, telling their officers, "You're not here to gather intelligence. You're here as a teacher." DARE's training documents are bathed in this language. Gain their trust. gain their trust. And God forbid if a child does confide in you, just like coincidentally, not because you gain their trust or anything, get another officer and let them take care of it. We can't have you losing the kid's trust cuz I guess that's important for drug education. Perhaps unintended consequences. Perhaps intended. >> Intended or unintended. [Music] The new DARE elementary curriculum challenges students by having them participate in active learning. The officer guides and directs students progress and their understanding. >> I'm going to ask for a student to help me by decorating the DARE box and that'll be a place for all of you to drop questions in, but also that might be a place where you may want to tell me something in confidentiality. And if you do, make sure that you make note of it in that box. Please make note that that's in there or that you don't want anyone to hear it, that you want it to be private. When I mention the term confidentiality, what that means is it's something between you and I. It's private. >> If a literal confession box isn't damning, I don't know what is. Would you say that it's in line with what you know about Daryl Gates to start a program that inspired kids to act as informants? >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. I have no doubt that it it occurred to him that this is a possibility. >> As DARE grew, this became a huge problem. More and more kids started turning their parents in. Parents compared DARE to the late Weimar Republic. If DARE was good at one thing, it was not drug education. It was, as Wikipedia says, using children as informants. >> The idea that you're going to use kids to rat out on their parents, the bottom of the barrel. If they use that to lock the dad up, the kid's going to find out about it someday that it was because of what they did and and they're going to live with that guilt. Face drug charges after their elementary school age child turned them in at school. Police say this child did the right thing. >> Want to protect the identity of this nine-year-old so the whole world doesn't know that he basically turned in his parents. This is part of the DARE program that police here in Matthews do with fifth graders. Today, we're going over this lesson right here. It's all about marijuana and the dangers of it. The lesson made such an impression on the 11-year-old that he literally brought marijuana cigarettes that his parents owned to school so he could turn them in. Matthews police officer Stac says this is an example of the DARE program working. A three-year independent study into DARE is commissioned by the Department of Justice, the same branch that funds DARE. Over the years, the DOJ approves of the independent agency's approach. Receiving feedback and notes, everything looks good. But when the study was ready and the findings were that DARE didn't work, the Department of Justice refused to publish it. Totally confused, the researchers go to the American Journal of Public Health, one of the most respected academic journals in its field. The study received exceptionally good peer reviews. So, the American Journal of Public Health goes to publish it. When the phone rings, it's DARE. They said that DARE tried to intimidate them, to interfere, and prevent the public from knowing that DARE doesn't work. When a major television network was working on a story about DARE, the producer said they worked very hard to get our story suppressed. When a reporter questioned the effectiveness of the program in USA Today, he received letters from classrooms all over the country. Coordinated, they were all addressed. Dear Dare Basher, DARE didn't stumble into its failure. It protected it. But to Dare, it doesn't matter because the money starts flowing. >> My fellow Americans, his war is not yet won. >> Reagan accelerates the war on drugs. And our nation is united against this scourge as never before. >> The first lady attends DARE fundraisers. Walt Disney's daughter gives an extraordinarily generous donation, landing a spot on the board of directors. The federal government says it'll pass a bill to fund anti-drug programs. Gates perks up and says success is when DARE is in every classroom across America. DARE sends a lobbyist to DC. That bill then gets amended, specifically putting money aside for programs that are taught by uniformed law enforcement officials. DARE uses government money to create regional training centers and develops a decentralized business model. board of directors, executives, employees, training centers, then the cops. But if they hire cops, they're no longer cops. So they help police departments set up private nonprofits themselves, dedicating much of the officers training to teaching them how to raise money. They then coach those officers to expand their program and bring on more officers, creating a really unique triangle shape. Why does it kind of sound like a multilevel marketing scheme? >> At the time, Herbal Life in MLM was the fastest growing company in America. Perhaps Dare took some inspiration, but I don't know. I don't know. It's not like Herbal Life's founder and executive vice president was on the board of directors. They even donated $36,000 to DARE, specifically designated for rent. They start taking donations from corporations. A famous one is KFC right there. Look at that. The logo, it doesn't say DARE. Dare America. You know, if if I were to have gone back to write this book again, you know, now like trying to figure out go into like corporate archives to find out like why are they all sponsoring DARE? >> Hm. Where would be a good place to find those that are potentially getting kickbacks officially? There's no kickbacks for these donors. There can't be. But in late 1989, Deputy Chief Glenn Leavant, who helped run the DARE program at LAPD, ordered his elite detectives to spend 2 days scouting out a hotel outside of city limits. They were there to catch a thief, which is odd because they were outside of city limits. They're outside of their jurisdiction. Those cops should not have been there. It was revealed that the owner of the hotel was involved with the DARE program board, meaning the police were doing odd things, things that they usually would not be doing, things that benefited members of DARE's board. >> The case that shocked the world and now it has exploded into a city out of control. A few years later, several police officers were caught on camera in a racially charged attack, beating a man named Rodney King. >> Terrible situation all night long. >> And LA burned. >> Fires, looting, gunshots, and now the National Guard may be ready to move in. >> Gates was forced to resign. Leavant shot up. His ambition kicked in. It was his time to be chief. But uh he didn't get the job. He left the force. the man who sent cops outside of city limits and reportedly ran the PDI's vastly more powerful sibling. >> We were a mini CIA for the chief of police and we worked some joint operations with the CIA. >> Glenn Leavant would leave the Los Angeles Police Department to take over Dare America. [Music] This is a timeline showing DARE's board of directors over time with an alleged reputation of giving kickbacks to those that are affiliated with DAR's board. These are the people that Glen Leavant and Dare America reported to. You have billionaires and millionaires, high-powered lawyers, government officials or people with connections, high-powered police and their friends, media personalities and some old friends. the football player that subdued RFK's killer, Bill Clinton's close confidant, a former congressman who is disgraced by financial crimes, who is assisted in those crimes by Dar's friend, the junk bond king, founders and CEOs of Hollywood's largest studios and developers, Michael Jackson, an infomercial king who will soon launder cocaine money. the lawyer who defended the city of LA in a lawsuit filed by the 15-year-old boy whose photos of RFK's assassination were stolen from him. But soon trouble hits. >> The largest criminal action against a Wall Street figure ever. Federal prosecutors indicted one of the richest and best known Wall Street figures in America. His name was Michael Milin. Do you remember the movie Wall Street? Michael Douglas, the lead character in Wall Street, greed is good. That was based on Michael Milin. >> Friend of DARE Michael Milin is indicted in a federal grand jury for financial crimes. Many of the board's most powerful members directly benefited from his financing, like this guy, billionaire Ron Burkel, connected to Harvey Weinstein, business partners with Shawn Diddy Combmes, close friends and donor to Bill Clinton, and his name appears on a list officially made by a man who never had any clients. According to the data available to us, Ron Burkel is the longest running director on the board at DARE. The Junk Bond King is sentenced to 10 years in prison. He only served 22 months and then the Junk Bond King was released, but he had to do a lot of community service hours, which which he went to DARE for. You can see him here talking to board member Michael Jackson at a gala. And as DARE starts to fail, the board will also fall apart. Michael Jackson goes to criminal trial. Michael Oitz gets fired from his executive role at Disney. Dar has a tense meeting with Congress and subsequently loses access to federal funding. Urbal Life's founder suddenly dies. Close friends Michael Oitz and Ron Burkel have a falling out and several members on the board have either hired or are somehow connected to a private investigator named Anthony Pelicano. They call him the sin eater. The convicted felon was hired by the Clintons to discredit Monica Lewinsky and Jennifer Flowers. He was hired by Michael Jackson to investigate the children accusing him. Hired by Oitz to spy on Burkel. He was a mob man who somehow got access to LAPD police files to aid in his crimes. Anyways, uh those are the guys that out of the goodness of their hearts want to help your kids. So, what was DARE really all about? We can't say for sure, but we can hold it up to the duck test. Beginning in the 1990s, the United Kingdom taught the DARE curricula, but over time, they modified the curricula and strayed from only using police officers. They still used cops. They just also used professionals and educators. But DARE sent them a cease and desist demanding that they stop using the DARE trademark. Coincidentally, after DARE UK made this change, early studies found an overall positive change in results. So, while the official story is that Daryl Gates created DARE because he wasn't happy with the results of the undercover drug bust in schools, I believe that the Detroit News said it best. In 1983, then Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates wanted to get police officers into schools. What resulted was a strange brew of politics, police, and education researchers and explains Dar's long history of clashing with nearly everyone who tried to evaluate it. So, if you were to ask me, Dar walks like an MLM and talks like a hustle. After years of attacking anyone that criticized their program, DARE finally admitted it here on their website. Scientists have repeatedly shown that the program did not work, seemingly in hopes to regain access to federal funding. DARE has released a new program. Then this one works. >> Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions attended a gathering of DARE. Over the past three years, DARE has had record-breaking expansion, training thousands of new cops. DARE is back. >> The first DARE graduation, two decades, there's so much interest in DARE returning. >> Revamping the DARE program and schools are on board. And it does actually seem like DARE's new program is promising. But the irony of it all is that DARE's new program was evaluated by a man named William B. Hansen, a scientific prevention strategist who back in the day worked with the Los Angeles Unified School District to develop a program called Project Smart. Thank you again to Surf Shark for sponsoring a portion of this video. And thank you to our patrons. You guys are amazing. Also, should I use this? I'll tell you what. Here we go. Every Wednesday on the Discord, we have a geogesser challenge. One month from when this video goes live, whoever wins, I will mail this to you. I don't know if it works. Like there there may not be any monetary value to it, but if you win, you will get it. Anyway, thanks so much. I'll see you in the next one. >> Drugs. Some of the big kids do them, so it's tough for us younger. >> But my mom and dad helped get this DARE anti-drug program in our school. >> It's run by specially trained police. >> Now we're saying no to drugs. be your own best friend. >> Get Dare in your kids school, too, by visiting Countrystyle Donuts. Purchase the Dare Bear and show you care. Proceeds go to DARE in your community.