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    000 arrests regarding curfews. In the city of Virginia Beach, city council wants to enforce a 10 pm during the week and a midnight curfew on weekends. I believe and am against curfews being added to Virginia Beach because of the numerous problems ranging from the restrictions on both teens and parents, non-reductive crime levels, mental issues among teens. By making a mandatory curfew, both teens and parents lose the ability to make choices for the teen. The 10 pm curfew forces a…

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    Does a curfew reduce teen violence? Yes, having a curfew for teens does reduce violence because it keeps kids off of the streets, reduces teen homicide, and it would help kids be involved in their community in a positive. A curfew should involve everything being shut down at the same time. For example, the Plaza closes at 9pm for teens. A curfew would help keep kids off of the streets. It will keep them off the streets because of all the guns and all the deaths that are happening. There are a…

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    considering placing a curfew that would make it illegal for teenagers to be on the streets after 10pm on weekdays and after midnight on weekends. This curfew should be set in place. Keeping teens of the streets after 10pm would make it more likely that they would get to bed at a decent time and be well rested for school the next day. On weekends keeping teens off the streets past midnight would help keep them safe from harm such as drunk drivers leaving bars. Placing these curfews in effect…

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    adults to have to deal with the mistakes of a teen who killed the family? Ten years ago after prom night a young teen crashed into our mayor, his wife and, their two children speeding 45 miles over the speed limit. Despite the tragic event, a curfew was set for all young adults to be home by nine o'clock PM every day. At first we all agreed because of the hardship we went through but, was it fair for all young innocent teens to be put through? Our town had a great…

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    Why Teens Should Have Curfews Imagine your child is driving or walking home after curfew and they are involved in a car wreck or attacked. If only they had come back when they should have, they would be safely at home and able to happily live their life with you. Teenagers should have curfews because first, when driving at night you are more likely to be involved in a car accident, and second, many criminals commit their crimes during the night rather than during the day. To begin, when driving…

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    Having a weekend and weekday curfew would be a good thing for teenagers now a days. It may even teach them a lesson or two about what and what not to do in life. I know if i was a parent i would not want my kids running around late at night. They tend to want to stay out and get into and explore new things but this right here should put a stop to that nonsense. Teenagers need to be home and in bed around a decent time, they could get hurt or worse roaming around midnight and it keeps them from…

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    ordinance curfew is a time frame given by an authority like the government or sometimes parents to teenagers below 18 years of age, to be home before a certain time. They were intended to limit a minor’s time without supervision from an adult, and to keep them off the streets during late hours. This has become a very popular way to attempt to reduce juvenile crime and to keep teenagers out of trouble, although this has not necessarily worked. Some teenagers feel the need to break their curfews…

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    m. weekday curfew and a midnight weekend curfew for teenagers. If the curfew is adopted, teenagers on the streets after those hours would be breaking the law. If this curfew is put in place, it will put an unfair and unnecessary interference on the lives of not just teenagers, but their families as well. Most teenagers have responsibilities, like jobs, whose hours may sometimes run past 10 p.m., so they are not able to be in the house by that time. Also, city council installing a curfew doesn't…

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    crime. Juvenile curfews could prevent all of those things from happening during the later hours of the night. Juvenile curfews keep teens out of trouble because they protect teens from becoming victims, strengthen parental control, and decrease juvenile crime rates. Juvenile curfews keep teens from falling victims to robbery, assault, and rape crimes. In many cases and reports, “index offenses such as homicide, rape, robbery, and assault decreased three to six percent during curfew hours”…

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    Curfews does having one really lead to keeping teenagers out of trouble? Many would say yes parents giving there kids a curfew will keep them safe they will be at home. If the parents fall asleep what is stopping them from sneaking out absolutely nothing. But it is not the parents it's a law and they can't sneak out where would they go all the stores will know of the law. In Montgomery, Alabama they have this rule expect teens can be out past it if they are with a parent are guardian. Some…

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