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Curfew In America

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Although most Americans will argue that a forced city wide curfew goes against their rights as American citizens, it is a way to keep the children and people that live in their city or town. When children run the streets after certain time limits, it becomes reckless and unsafe. They run the risk of getting seriously hurt, killed, or commit a crime. Kids that don’t do anything wrong are getting punished by the curfew. It’s not fair to punish all for one’s mistake. We all know what a curfew is, but the thought of having one is even worse. Many teenagers believe that curfews are not important and also think that they do not need them. Although the government and some parents do believe in curfews. The main reason why they want curfews is because …show more content…

“Many parents in lower income areas work at night most arguments against it talk about how and are not around to correctly supervise their teenage children.” Police have more say in what happens, others say that it will cause the youth to go elsewhere to be able to hang out with their friends. A curfew is about a teenager understanding that, yes, teens can go out and have fun, but there has to be discipline for their bad actions. Our country isn’t sure if they should have curfews for people because most people are good and they don’t break the laws like other people do. In the article America’s curfew debate it says that “curfews violate the fourth amendment and its protections against unreasonable search and seizure.” Curfews can help stop the crimes and laws being broke but it can also make cops hassle people when they aren’t doing anything wrong and they are just walking home from dinner or even the movies. “13 year old Jose Regalado said as he took a break from an evening basketball game as a Chicago YMCA, he and other teens there complained that police go out of their way to hassle them, even when they’re rushing home shortly after curfew has

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