Should City Adopt A Curfew?

Curfew is a set time which teenagers will have to schedule their activities around. Generally, this curfew doesn’t change and helps your teen to understand boundaries. It is a wonderful idea for teens to have curfews because it teaches them to be responsible and also considerate of other people around them. As teenagers, it is natural for adolescents to feel like their freedoms are being taken away and that their parents don’t know what is best. However, curfew is put in place for the direct opposite, which is keeping teenagers out of trouble. Curfew teaches teenagers time management, it could lower the crime rate in local areas, and it could give teenagers an overall better relationship with their parents. Because of these reasons, I

Strict rules create rebellious teens. Many people think that curfews are a fundamental way to keeping teens out of trouble, but this is not the case. Curfews are neither applicable, justified, nor are they a way to diminish criminal activities committed by adolescents. Curfews are ultimately useless because there are too many reasons that contradict why a curfew would work.

A city curfew just will make teenagers want to stay out even longer. If a city decides to make a curfew that says teenagers cannot stay out later than ten on weekdays and twelve on weekends will just make them have to sneak out and be breaking the law while they are at it! So if you are the city council I have one question for you, would you rather let the teenagers stay out as long as their parents let them or make them just break the law?

Many teenagers have a set time they have to be home by their parents. Usually teenagers must be home from dates and nights out with friends by anywhere from 10 o’clock at night to 2 o’clock in the morning. Each parent has extremely different curfews set for their children, based on the individual level of responsibility and trust levels. Some local government decides to set their own curfews, to keep teens off the streets at night and out of trouble. Many people argue whether this actually solves anything, or is even legal to do, since it is taking away a piece of teenager’s freedom. Although there are many good and bad points to enforcing curfews, they should be less enforced because they do not necessarily keep teens out of trouble,

Both authors give many reasons why they are for or against curfews. Barbara bey believes that curfews are good because keep them safe and better to them to be in the home before 11:00 pm, while the other author insists that curfews are bad because the teenagers want to be after 11:00 pm outside the home because they going to drink and smoke and that's dangers to them. I agree that the curfews are good for the teenagers because so many people believe the teen going to do the bad thing. The United State they should do curfews in the future before 11:00 pm that helps the teenagers make them safe and are not dangerous for them.

I am a teen myself, and I am for it and not for it because it has benefits and downfalls. Most parents are going to be for it but some of the teenagers are going to be against it. It would just depend on what the scenario is for them to be out that late. The parents will defiantly be for it if they want their child to be safe.

Many cities have curfews for it’s minors; however, many parents have his or her own curfew for one’s own child. I oppose against any city appointed curfew as a curfew is not a city’s duty to control what time a minor must be home. A curfew should be appointed by a minor’s parent or guardian, a city curfew is far too interfering in one’s personal life, and many teenagers have jobs in which they do not leave work until ten.

Imagine this, it’s 10:30 p.m. and you are walking down the street when a cop approaches you. The next thing you know you’re in big trouble for being on the streets after 10:00 p.m. Don’t like the sound of that do you? My city council is considering a curfew that would make it illegal for teenagers to be out on the streets after 10:00 p.m. on weekdays and after midnight on weekends. I disagree with this consideration because teenagers may have to work late, they could be in danger, or there could be an emergency.

My first reason is that parents should decide their child's curfew . For example , it may not bother a parent that their child is out late with their friends

“At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.” That was a quote from Jodi Rell, former Governor of Connecticut. Safety and security are both key in everyday life, making life easier and simpler. One thing that would add to safety and security would be the establishment of a curfew. A curfew proposed would set a curfew for any minor, a person under the age of 18, to be 11:00 p.m. The curfew would be put into place to decrease the number of mischief and vandalism crimes in the city. This would make the streets safer for everyone and would not be asking much from the people. If this reasonable curfew was established, it would satisfy all parties and have a very minimum backlash. There should be a curfew put into place, and in this essay I will support why.

A city council is debating the adoption of weekday and weekend curfews for teenagers. The weekday curfew would be at ten o'clock and the weekend curfew would be at midnight. If this curfew is adopted, it could help keep teenagers out of trouble. The curfew could also help teenagers focus on more important things such as getting their school work done. Some advantages of having a weekday curfew is that it could promote good study habits in teenagers. This curfew would allow teenagers to spend more time doing their school work and less time getting in trouble on the streets. By having this extra time to complete their school work, it might help boost teenagers grades as well. Having a curfew in place might also help teenagers

Curfews are not right and should be against the law. If the city council makes this a law is giving police authority to arrest people who have committed no crime. A parent should be able to decide when they think their children should have to be home not a bunch the police and the city council. Not only should parents get to decide when their children have to be home, some children work on weekday nights and don’t get off work till round 10.

Having a teenage curfew is ineffective and useless. Many people argue that the curfews are necessary because it will keep young people out of trouble. They also say that teenagers are more likely to get in trouble late than they would during daylight. Teens are looked at as the age group that causes the most trouble, and society targets them when it comes to matter for crime, however many people believe that teens are responsible for a large percentage of crimes and that having a curfew in effect will help lower crime rates. I disagree with this because I don't think teenagers should be forced to follow a ridged time schedule because of a curfew.

Back in 2008 a youth protection ordinance also known as a curfew, was considered for the City of Aiken. This ordinance however, was not passed and hasn’t been brought up since. Other cities in South Carolina and other states in the United States have passed curfews. Everybody since the beginning of time has had some kind of curfew or restriction in their lifetime and lately there has been an increasing number of cities enforcing curfews. Over the years this controversial issue that has been debated and argued over in the past and is now coming back into the light. People who believe in curfews claim that they prevent juveniles from getting involved in criminal activity, keeping people safe, and lessen the risk of casualties.

Most cities in the U.S. have a curfew at twelve p.m. for adolescents for many different reasons. Said by (Morrissey)” San Diego police maintain that their comprehensive approach of offering outreach programs and doing sweeps to enforce the city's 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew keeps youths from committing crimes -- or becoming victims of crime.”. This shows that the San Diego police department want to prevent kids from getting in trouble for vandalizing their community and getting less of the adolescents getting arrested. In Canada they use a different type of technique for the adolescents to get home on time. This technique is written in an article by (Hopper), “ youth are regularly summoned to bed at 10 p.m. by the sounding of an air-raid-style community siren. A curfew siren also blares nightly in Churchill”. Many other cities use this siren to let the young adults know to go in because polar bears are suppose to be roaming around at this time of night.