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Teenagers Are Ineffective

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The use of city mandated curfews on teenagers are ineffective. A curfew only used at a city level is very small and harbors no effect on teenagers. Its complete obsolete properties do absolutely no effect. Teenagers who live in a curfews mandated city will just simply just be more clever past curfew hours. City police officers would be unable to carry out curfews. Several teenagers appear to be much older then they are, even more so in the cover of night. There are also several adults who might be falsely accused if they appear younger. A city mandated curfew for teenagers should not be enforced because it is ineffective and it is the parents responsibility to enact a curfew. Firstly, city mandated curfews on teenagers are ineffective, because they …show more content…

Teenagers are also very clever and smart individuals. They could come up with several ways of evading police. They could print of a false ID, stay away from police patrolled areas, appear to look older, etc. Teenagers also outnumber police officers, and could just overwhelm police officers. Police officers would also be wasting rescores try to track down teenagers instead of actual criminals. This extreme waste of resources would be very detrimental. Some people in apposition to this paper say that a city mandated curfew could be a strong deterrent to teenagers staying out late. The counterclaim to that is that it wouldn't be a deterrent, because several teenagers hold no respect for authority. All of these reasons and specific examples support this view that a city mandated curfew for teenagers should not be enforced because it is ineffective. Secondly, a city mandated curfew for teenagers should not be enforced because it is the parents responsibility to enact a curfew. The parents of the child should be held reasonable to enact curfews. it should not be the cities responsibility to make sure teenagers are off the street. If parents do not discipline their children then that is not the responsibility

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