The analysis also considered the recruitment and training of police officers and the attitudes of school teachers and principals toward the program. Students who had received DARE were also compared with students who had received some other form of drug education. Findings showed that more than 22,000 students, mostly in fifth or sixth grade, received the DARE core curriculum during the 1988-89 academic year. Teachers and principals showed strong support for the program. Students showed strong negative feelings toward drugs of any kind before, after, and a year following the DARE program. However, the program had only short-term impacts on peer resistance, drug attitudes, and attitudes toward the police. However, DARE showed no short-term positive gains among lower-class, inner-city students in a metropolitan school system. In addition, comparison of DARE students with other students one year after the program showed very few significant long-term differences. Figures, tables, and appended study instruments.