“I could see this was the answer...
“I could see this was the answer from the beginning. . . . I thought it would be mandated in every school district in the country by now.”
--Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Glenn Levant, who oversees the department’s anti-drug DARE program, which began in 1983 as a pilot project in 50 Los Angeles grade schools.
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