In an effort to curb violence the City of Baltimore is imposing a year round curfew of 9pm for children under 14, and 10pm weeknights/11pm weekends for 14-16 year olds. Would you want this curfew where you live?
If I got a quarter every time Ive been stopped for curfew, I'd be able to bribe the police to leave me alone.Ive even been driven home since turning 18 because I didn't have my id while walking the dog.Jerks woke up my dad in the middle of the night.
As someone that has worked in downtown Baltimore for over a decade, I am upset over the need for such a curfew, but I absolutely agree that there is such a need. Every night there are groups of "children" running through
Downtown, terrorizing tourists, committing minor, sometimes major, crimes. I've had friends put in the hospital, my business vandalized, etc, by "children".
What kids under 14 doing out past those times without adults anyways? I wouldn't support this as a law, but I do love the restrictions some of the malls and local night life scenes have like these. I have zero patience for annoying tweens.
We had a similar curfew in my hometown, but my hometown was about 2,000 people. It wasn't difficult to enforce. I don't know how that will work in a city like Baltimore.
I grew up in Calif. & we had an enforced curfew just like this; really it was NO big deal. Got stopped by the cops twice & asked who-what-where we were going & how long until we would be "off the streets". That was it, both times.
in general I don't *want* it but not enough to fight over it bec I see a small bit of value in it. as long as I could give permission to my kid for being out past it I'd be ok with it.
When bad things happen involving kids, there's always the accusation, "Why didn't their parents know where they were??!" Yet everyone resists things that would help parents with this.
I grew up in a town with a 10 pm curfew for under 16. The cops weren't nasty about it but if we were out after that with a good reason they would call to verify that with parents. It wasn't a bad thing.
No, don't like that. Particularly the bit about kids being off the street during school hours. Sometimes there is a legitimate reasons to be out of school, are they now going to need an escort?
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