Taking away Youth Freedom A youth curfew in Oakland is a waste of time for a lot of Police. Crime is still the same with or without a curfew and a curfew would take away teenagers freedom. At night there’s danger all around Oakland and you can hear the screaming and gunshots. Many teenagers have been killed lead to many to argue that teenagers should have a curfew at night. A youth curfew would get teenagers home by 10 pm and if they stayed out past that time‚ a police would be allowed to pull
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Allyson Walker Teenage Curfew Laws Imagine this: you are reading a newspaper. In big‚ bold print is headlined “Teen Shot By Criminal Running from Cops at Midnight.” For most cities‚ this is not abnormal. The term “curfew” is very broad. It’s meaning and level of importance varies from area to area. Although many regions all over the world do have a law prohibiting young children to be out past a certain time‚ there are still many places that do not enforce these time limits. One of the easiest
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Anita Saavedra English 253 Maya Watson 11/12/201 Is Having a Curfew for Teens in Salinas a Good Idea? I strongly agree with the idea of having a curfew for teen in Salinas. I believe that a curfew should really be in Salinas for example how a day’s there are many things that could happen to the teens and the little children. In some of the street there could be kidnapping. In some of cities it is now illegal for any teen under age of eighteen to be out after 11:00pm -5:00am on the weeknights and
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A curfew is a rule that says people under a certain age should be off the streets and in their homes by a specific time of night. Curfews were first introduced in 1998 in a policy called Crime and Disorder Act (BBC.News.org). Curfew laws are intended to protect young people and keep them from getting into trouble. Even though intended to curfew laws do not keep teens out of trouble. It is said by Traci Truly that “the teen curfew laws have helped to lower the crime rate particularly
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Curfew Essay How would you feel to be taken captive by the time? To me‚ a curfew would be the same as locking me behind bars. A curfew is not necessary for teens and should not be allowed. A curfew would cost too much extra money to enforce‚ would take away our personal freedom liberties‚ and the curfew will restrict a teen from doing nightly activities either alone or at all. First of all‚ the money used for enforcing this law should be used for something else. With the payment of the workers
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I believe that there should be no curfew laws for teenagers. The setting of a curfew should be up to the teenager themselves and their parents. I believe this mainly because an enforced curfew law would simply result in more teenagers getting in trouble with the law. Teenagers could accidentally break the law if they are unaware of what time it is‚ traffic could cause a teenager to be late and therefore break the law. There are too many opportunities for this law to be broken and therefore it should
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This paper will discuss the offence status and then discussing the perspective of a police officer that is on routine patrol that encounters what appears to be three underage individuals that is in violation of the city ordinance regarding curfew. The officer will provide a list of offenses that each underage individual violated. The officer will classify how each will be treated and why the officer made that decision. Furthermore‚ the officer will discuss how it might handle an uncooperative
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Curfew For Teens It is a friday night and it is the last home football Game. It is 9:45 with fifteen minutes left in the game. What would you do watch the game or be home by curfew. The city council is wanting to make the curfew at ten p.m. on weekdays and midnight on the weekends. This curfew change is not the thing we need right now. The curfew time will limit what hours a kid can work or do school activities. Teenagers with this curfew does not stop the rebelliousness‚ the rebelliousness will
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Teenage Curfew A majority of parents and public want to put a teenage curfew into effect‚ assuming it will avert alcohol and drug abuse from teens. Most curfew policies require teens under 18 years of age to be home at certain hours at night‚ unless they have a legitimate excuse or are accompanied by a parent/guardian. By reducing the number of youth on the street during certain hours‚ curfews are thought to lesson the number of circumstances in which youth crime can occur. Crime perhaps‚ but when
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Curfews and Troubles Now a days‚ the rate of teenagers been harmed or got into trouble is increasing rapidly for they are having not much of a trouble to get out of their house at night. Maybe we can also put it in a way that the parents of the present society are getting weaker as time goes in controlling the actions of their children. A solution has came up to solve this problem‚ that is curfew. But a question came along‚ do curfews keep teens out of trouble? In my opinion‚ I do think that curfews
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