Curfews. All around our time out with peers is limited due to this blockade determined by government. Curfews, the excuse for deteriorating crime in inner-city. Curfews should be determined by guardians of the youth, not by the government. Curfews are punishing good kids around the country. Do you want your child’s social life determined by a certain time they are required to be home? It’s up to you to make that decision. Curfews should not be put in place by government, but rather by parents. According to a CBS news article, written is February of 2004, Jose Regalado of Chicago, Illinois stated that cops go out of their way to hassle them when they are constantly rushing home in flee of citation. “It’s not fair. They think all kids are bad, but we’re not.” Many minors feel this way, as did one named Andy Herm, who filed a law suit to fight Denver’s curfew. His case stated that the curfew was unconstitutional, as it took…show more content… “Unfortunately, many parents in lower-income areas work at night and are not around to correctly supervise their teenage children.” “This fact is that there is a perception that curfews make a city safer.” But his research has found that juvenile crime rates in such cities as San Francisco actually went down when curfews were abolished. The fact is that these kids committing crime are most likely rebelling due to the lack of freedom given, therefore when curfews were abolished, the kids stopped committing rebellious actions. Simplistic acts such as coming home from basketball or coming from a restaurant are an excuse for the police to catch you. “They were just out playing basketball in parks or coming out of restaurants.” While curfews are supposed to cut crime rates they are “A very effective way of wasting police time.” Curfews punish good kids and mark a citation on their permanent record, no matter how small of an
