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Last updated on: 4/9/2010 8:56:37 AM PST D.A.R.E. Home Page > Source Biographies > >Gilbert Puder

Gilbert Puder Biography

Title: Former Officer of the Vancouver (Canada) Police Department
Position: Con to the question "Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for America's Kids (K-12)?"
Reasoning:
"This intellectual dishonesty is painfully apparent when agencies appropriate the educator's mandate, substituting police for professional teachers. One only has to examine the abuses of the expensive and dubiously effective DARE program in the U.S. Extensive studies detail the failures of DARE and the U.S. General Accounting Office conspicuously declined to include the program in it's recent evaluation of drug education...

I wonder if parents and local taxpayers are aware that 1998 University of Illinois research found greater drug use among students who had experienced DARE? In our information-based society we can't patronize people anymore, regardless of their age. A resurgence of marijuana use in Western societies is remarkably coincidental with electronic freedom of information on the world-wide web, and one must ask how many teenagers now simply disregard their cigarette-smoking or alcohol-drinking parents, teachers and police as dishonest hypocrites."
"Sensible Solutions to the Urban Drug Problem," Presentation to the Fraser Institute, Apr. 21, 1998
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:  Organizations/VIPs/Others
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Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Former Officer, Vancouver (Canada) Police Department
  • Former Instructor, British Columbia (Canada) Police Academy
  • Posthumous Recipient, H.B. Spear Award for Achievement in the Field of Control and Enforcement, Drug Policy Alliance, 2000
  • Education: None found
    Other:
  • Died of cancer on Nov. 12, 1999
  • Featured in a 1999 documentary "Stopping Traffik: The War Against the War on Drugs"
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