The English dictionary states that a curfew is: a regulation enjoining the withdraw of usually specified persons. In real people terminology that just means. a time when certain people must withdraw from an activity that they are doing to go to a specified area. I wonder is making people (especially teenagers) go home at a certain time really useful in most environments? I don't think so and let me tell you why.
I think it is unjust for any laws pertaining to a curfew to be formed by the government.
When the curfew was formed it was mostly for upper-class people to shield them from what happened on the streets during night. This useful form of security was a very smart idea. The idea for it [curfews] to be used to control teens in communities became popular in the 1900's. Unfortunately, this idea was thought up hundreds of year's age, and could hardly be helpful in the twenty-first century. In some places police can put kids in jail just for being out their curfew. .
We all need restrictions, especially teenagers, and it should be the child's parents who choose the time of a curfew. To involve the government in this issue is ludicrous. In America we have many rights. One of them is about traveling; we can travel at anytime and to wherever we want. They shouldn't make that law only available for adults. Though teenagers are minors, they are still citizens and not exempt from this basic constitutional rights. .
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It scares me that perhaps if someday I was in a neighborhood with a curfew, and I had broken it I would be sent to jail. Another thing that scares me about curfews is that, if a police officer is trying to take care of a teen that was out past curfew, and couldn't run after a criminal and catch the criminal. While in my community we have a large police force, many places don't. In small towns where curfews are usually placed, the police force might not be large enough in a situation like that.
