Curfews While driving home from work late one Tuesday night, he noticed the blare of a siren and the blinding lights in his rearview mirror. “I was stopped and questioned five times, by five different police officers on my three-mile drive home,” said a 16-year-old from Monrovia, CA (“Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” 1). Sadly, Monrovia, CA. is not the only city in our otherwise “fair” country with such a troublesome law as youth curfew. In fact, a recent survey of the nation’s 1,010 cities with populations more than 30,000 found that only one third claimed curfew enforcement was responsible for reducing youth crime (“The Impact of Juvenile Curfew Laws in California” 1). Since curfew laws have proven themselves to be ineffective when trying to reduce youth crime, and actually have the potential to turn law-abiding teens into criminals: it is obvious they ....

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