Essay Archive - Curfews
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 respo....
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