How long have curfews been around

Jo Lemons, 15, of Newport Beach disagrees. The imposition of a curfew, says Dr. In Los Angeles, curfew proponents point to the increasingly young age of children cruising the streets, and to the harm that could come to them. Westwood business owners, however, say their customers, if they can even make it to the stores, are forced to witness drug deals, fights and scary hairdos.

A visit to Westwood on a recent Saturday night found seven policemen patroling the village on foot and another five on horseback. Curt Hussey explained that the volunteers stationed on the tops of nearby buildings with binoculars and walkie-talkies are there to warn the officers of any developing trouble spots.

The police are supposed to enforce clearly defined laws, not seize citizens based on whether they think their activities are reasonable. Legal challenges to teen-age curfew laws have had limited success. Where they have succeeded, the laws have usually been worded too vaguely, or they did not contain enough exceptions to protect teen-agers engaged in legitimate nighttime activities. An Opelousas, La. The majority of curfew decisions, however, have upheld the laws, especially if the laws protected socially sanctioned activities.

Newport Beach City Atty. Robert Burnham is confident that the ordinance could withstand any legal challenge. Since our exceptions are so broad, the impact on protected rights is minimal.

On Monday night, New Yorkers were given until pm to get home and stay there, but ongoing violence has meant the city's curfew will now start at pm Tuesday night. Monday was the first time the city has instituted a curfew during the unrest following George Floyd's death a week ago. The additional officers would be deployed to areas where violence and property damage occurred during recent protests , specifically in lower Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn.

If you break the curfew in New York, you could be jailed for up to 90 days. The hour overnight curfew in Los Angeles was the harshest the city had seen since the riots of , which followed the acquittal of police officers accused of using excessive force in the beating of Rodney King, according to Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore.

Elsewhere in the state of California, CNN reported that curfews in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica would start at pm on Tuesday for business districts and pm in the rest of the city.

San Francisco was under a curfew on Monday night and Mayor London Breed said the restrictions would remain "until we see that the situation is under control". Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney extended a citywide curfew for the third straight night on Monday from pm to am. The curfew in Atlanta was also extended for a third night between pm and sunrise. Police will issue warnings to anyone not complying and arrests may be made.

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The inconsistency has left Ruiz unsure whether curfews are having a net-positive effect. Kids in San Diego seem to be conflicted about curfews as well. Officers let him off with a ride home. Tonight though, leniency was in short supply. By One problem is that analysis of curfews is relatively scant, and opinions often fall in the more emotional realm. The data also shows that diversion programs are indeed keeping more kids of all races out of the courts.

In , a majority of curfew cases were handled within the department for the first time in decades. That trend has continued, with only about a third of curfew cases going to juvenile probation