Youth Curfew
Taking away Youth Freedom
A youth curfew in Oakland is a waste of time for a lot of Police. Crime is still the same with or without a curfew and a curfew would take away teenagers freedom. At night there's danger all around Oakland and you can hear the screaming and gunshots. Many teenagers have been killed lead to many to argue that teenagers should have a curfew at night. A youth curfew would get teenagers home by 10 pm and if they stayed out past that time, a police would be allowed to pull them over to take them to jail or give them a ticket. Many teenagers have been killed at night time and most of the crime suspects are adult not the teenagers. Teenagers shouldn't have curfew because it takes away their human rights and freedom, and doesn't address the real perpetrators of violence : adults. Youth curfew takes to much time away from a lot of Police because it takes a while to handle one person if they break the curfew. Many police reports that teenagers should have a curfew due to all the killing, but it takes almost 1 hour to settle a teenager when they get caught by the police. In the article " Why a Curfew in Oakland is still a Bad idea " by Robert Gammon he states that " In a 2009 report to the city council , OPD reported that detaining a youth for violating curfew could take up to 60 minutes of a police officers time. " Not only it will take 60 minutes to arrest a teenager but it will take several more hours to get it together. In Robert Gammons article " Why a Curfew in Oakland is still Bad idea " Gammon claims " And if the officer decided to arrest the teen, it could take up to several hours to process him or her and then take the youth to Juvenile Hall in San Leandro. " Its a lot of time wasting process if a lot of teenagers is caught at the same time. The problem about youth crime rate is that with or without curfew the crime numbers don't changes. Considering that many teenagers get killed at night but so no specific evidence that its
A youth curfew in Oakland is a waste of time for a lot of Police. Crime is still the same with or without a curfew and a curfew would take away teenagers freedom. At night there's danger all around Oakland and you can hear the screaming and gunshots. Many teenagers have been killed lead to many to argue that teenagers should have a curfew at night. A youth curfew would get teenagers home by 10 pm and if they stayed out past that time, a police would be allowed to pull them over to take them to jail or give them a ticket. Many teenagers have been killed at night time and most of the crime suspects are adult not the teenagers. Teenagers shouldn't have curfew because it takes away their human rights and freedom, and doesn't address the real perpetrators of violence : adults. Youth curfew takes to much time away from a lot of Police because it takes a while to handle one person if they break the curfew. Many police reports that teenagers should have a curfew due to all the killing, but it takes almost 1 hour to settle a teenager when they get caught by the police. In the article " Why a Curfew in Oakland is still a Bad idea " by Robert Gammon he states that " In a 2009 report to the city council , OPD reported that detaining a youth for violating curfew could take up to 60 minutes of a police officers time. " Not only it will take 60 minutes to arrest a teenager but it will take several more hours to get it together. In Robert Gammons article " Why a Curfew in Oakland is still Bad idea " Gammon claims " And if the officer decided to arrest the teen, it could take up to several hours to process him or her and then take the youth to Juvenile Hall in San Leandro. " Its a lot of time wasting process if a lot of teenagers is caught at the same time. The problem about youth crime rate is that with or without curfew the crime numbers don't changes. Considering that many teenagers get killed at night but so no specific evidence that its