The Pros And Cons Of Curfew Laws

Curfews have been around for a long time. Curfews were created to prevent teens from staying out late and getting in trouble. As John Green said “History doesn’t have a curfew”. I believe that curfews don’t keep teens out of trouble.

Curfews have increased crime because there is a law preventing people from doing something, but there still going to do it anyway. A curfew law was set out in a town of 200,000 people. Juvenile arrests rates were compared for three years prior to the curfew enacted and three years of curfew enforcement. As result indicated that the curfews had no effect on the total juvenile arrests. In the period 1988 to 1993 the rates of teen crime was more than 60%. This test with curfews 1994 to 1997 the crime rate nearly

doubled in the three years.
Teen curfews are not a priority for some areas.

As roach said “usually if kids are out late they’re doing something there’re not supposed to be doing, but he said he didn’t know if a curfew would help resolve any problems. Clovis had a teen curfew until 200 when it was scrapped after Albuquerque lost a court case. The American civil liberties union sued Albuquerque over its teen curfew laws and the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled curfews cannot establish criminal penalties activity when the same activity is fine of adults. “Nobody abides by it” Cabrals said,” and having a curfew makes more kids that are out at night in trouble only because they are out past a certain time, even though they aren’t causing any

trouble.
City no curfew for Abilene teens.

“Although some had the perception that a curfew would unemotionally marginalize minorities, others were concerned it would infringe on teens civil rights,” said Anthony Williams. Mayor pro team and the council members who suggested the curfew. “The more I study the idea of a curfew; I’m not sure how effective it would be to mitigate crime, “Williams said. The city intended for the curfew to be a tool the police department to reduce crime rates across the city,” Hanna said, but if residents are not ready to have a discussion about it then the city will not force it on them. Willison said “he would rather focus his efforts on Abilene neighborhood imitative, a partnership among the city that concentrates on improving the quality of life of the

residents.
Now yes curfews have worked in the past in smaller towns and they do keep teens out of trouble in those areas but the comparison of curfews working and not working, there are a lot more places where curfews have failed than worked. Curfews have been proven that they don’t work so many times I feel that city’s should be working on better ways of decreasing crime rate. Some examples is if crime rates go down there will be days that movies in movie theaters will be free, in return this will motivate the people as a whole because they will be getting reworded for their good work.