Teenage Curfews: with Them or Against Them

Imagine yourself as a teen driving home after curfew, all of sudden your pulled over by the police and either arrested or ticketed for curfew violations. Then you think to yourself, I wasn't doing anything wrong. This has become an increasing problem in America today. It is a shame for teenagers to get charged with breaking curfew and they are not committing a crime. This is another reason why teenage curfew is not need. My main points of the speech are to show that curfew laws are too expensive to keep, are unconstitutional and should be dealt with by parents, and don't show a correlation with teenage violence. My thesis is to persuade the audience to vote against teenage curfew. My first point that I am going to express is that some states are still racial challenged. Studies show that “Evidence from U.S. cities suggests that police arrest far more black children than white for curfew violations.” (parenting tips). There was an incident where two teens were driving home. They were pulled over and taken into custody because they were out past curfew. Once in court, .“The boy had argued that the curfew regime violated his rights to liberty under four articles of the European convention on human rights.”(Andalo) These teens won there case because of this statement. Another point that I would like to mention is “Curfews will tend to be imposed upon poor areas in inner cities with few places for children to amuse themselves safely and within the law, compounding social exclusion with physical exclusion from public spaces.”(parenting tips) Not only are curfews not needed in the community; but, they are also “Already in the USA, more children are charged with curfew offences than with any other crime.”(parenting tips). Another point is "statistics show that most juvenile crimes occur between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m." This fact totally goes against the idea of teen curfews. “Children have a right to freedom of movement and assembly which curfews directly undermine, by