24. DARE Tried to Use Children as Informants
Children in participating schools were asked to submit written questionnaires with sensitive information in a lesson called “The Three R’s: Recognize, Resist, Report.” It encouraged children to tell friends, teachers, or police if they found drugs at home.
The program even went to lengths to place a DARE box in classrooms where students could place “drug information” under the guise of anonymity. Still, if a student did make a disclosure, the officer was to report the information to further authorities regardless of whether the drug was legal or not, harmless or not.
