Curfews for young people--should it be extended to other sections of the community?

Question

and not just at night time.If you were in charge who would you make subject to curfew ,how long for, and why ?

Answer 1

I would make no-one subject to a curfew. It is totally unfair to punish the majority because of the actions of a few. We live in a free society and to take away freedoms like this is unfair and unjust. It will not stop any crime being committed or anything, because those who are happy to commit crime will be happy to break the curfew, and the police will still be too scared to do anything about it.

Answer 2

Yeah, I think having a curfew in more than a voluntary... thing, would p**s off a lot of people.

Being someone who would be affected by this sort of thing, I think a better alternative, would be for large groups of people (with age not being a factor) causing trouble to be dealt with at the police officer's discretion.

Of course, this should really already be happening, if it isn't already.

I think a stranger thing is that people are allowed to drink what is clearly alcohol on the streets. This can't be safe, for example, in a road-crossing situation?

Answer 3

Laws should be banned because the self-protection instinct kicks in when people are forced into a corner like a rat, they only want to turn around and bite others on the *** (muel duh! yahpoo) to seek immediate attention. *snarls rips growls* "You can't get rid of me that easily yer bastars!", kind of thingmy.

Politicians should not be allowed.

Answer 4

I think it'd be great to have no yob kids on the streets, but that'd just be another example of the govt slapping handuffs on the whole country just because a few are misbehaving. I do think, however, that the police should just have more power of discretion.. to tell these kids to shove off and laws that enable them to actually enforce if the kids give em the finger

Answer 5

This whole story confuses me. The curfew is 100% voluntary. The parents have agreed to keep their kids at home during the specified times. If all parents kept their scum kids off the streets in these areas there would be no trouble (as the curfew has shown)

What confuses me is why the police are needed to convince parents to do what they should be doing anyway.

xx VP

Answer 6

Curfews are sometimes imposed on adults who are remanded on bail, the purpose being to keep them out of mischief. As the alternative to this arrangement would be a remand in custody, it does not offend the Human Rights legislation.

Curfews are also imposed -- very rarely indeed in our country -- where a state of emergency has been declared and it is important to keep people off the streets. I was subject to one once after a serious hurricane hit our British Overseas territory and the Governor declared a state of emergency. The effect was (in theory) that anyone found in the streets without reasonable authority could be arrested.

I think that any imposition of a curfew in normal times to free members of the Community would be an interference with their human rights.

Answer 7

The politically correct busybodies should be kept indoors.

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Answer 8

I would curfew drug addicts 20 hours a day.  let them buy shopping and that is it.  if they brake it then they would face capital punishment.  they are nothing but a drain on sosciety and contribute nothing but crime and soscial degridation

Answer 9

You could outlaw who does not work Mon-Fri 9-5 from shopping on a Saturday!