Posted on 09/05/2022 7:33:31 PM PDT by Morgana
Teenagers in a Maryland county blighted by violence are to be banned from the streets between 10pm and 5am during the week, it was announced on Monday, in a bid to bring rocketing juvenile crime rates down.
Angela Alsobrooks, executive for Prince George's County - which encompasses eastern Washington DC and the surrounding suburbs - said that parents could be fined up to $250 for repeated violations and children could be turned over to the Department of Social Services.
'I'm just going to put it very bluntly: Somebody has got to take responsibility for these armed and dangerous children. And it's not just the police and not just the government,' said Alsobrooks.
'We have children who are out in our communities at 3 and 4 o'clock a.m. committing these crimes.
'No summer job or government program is going to help that.'
The youth curfew is based on an existing law, and was last brought in in 1995, but Alsobrooks said current circumstances warranted bringing it back.
Alsobrooks noted an 'eye-popping' 430 arrests of juveniles this year so far - nearly double the number last year - and 84 arrests of young people for carjackings - almost the same figure as for the entire 12 months of 2021.
Under the terms of the curfew, youngsters aged 17 or under must be home between 10pm and 5am on weekdays and Sundays, and midnight and 5am on Friday and Saturday nights.
The 'cooling down period', as Alsobrooks termed it, will run for 30 days.
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But it won’t shift responsibility to the parents; these thugs are just going to hang out in another nearby county. I saw it growing up, like being a wet county next to a dry one. Thanks but no thanks.
Only a small part of the county is wealthy. The rest of it is very dangerous.
Well, what do you propose?
I’m only a mile or so from PG County.
This is a great idea. Now the 14, 15, 16 and 17 year old gang bangers will be able to catch up on their homework.
Maybe the bug-eyed mayor of Chitcago can give some advice.
Indeed, they need to catch up! Their analytic geometry homework has been mediocre at best so far. And those in the AP calculus classes are really falling behind!
The “have tied the Police Department’s Hands.” Sad. Big mistake. Insulting Christians, soldiers and police officers is the mistake of amateurs who never heard of Abraham Lincoln who was an expert politician.
They will move back into NE DC along Minnesota Ave. NE and possibly Georgia Ave. NE as well as Pennsylvania Ave. NE to the PG County border. Includes the killing field of Suitland,
A crime shit-hole that challenges the Deep State Swamp in the size of criminal operations and conspiracies.
Nuke it from space, just to be sure!
And let God sort them out, right?
TWO WORDS: Midnight basketball.
Even God doesn’t want to get involved with shit-hole P.G County. We’re on our own!
MARYLAND IS STILL A BASKET CAST.
YOU NEED MORE THAN JUST SOMEONE POSING AS A REPUBLICAN TO SAVE YOUR STATE.
YOU NEED SOMEONE WHO IS SINCERE LIKE KIM KASIC WHO APPEARS TO KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS AND WANTS TO HELP.
I DON’T CARE IF SHE WAS A POLE DANCER, SHE SEEMS LIKE A YOUNG LADY WHO WANTS TO SAVE HER STATE.\
GIVE HER A CHANCE.
It was bad 40 years ago.
I grew up in Mt. Rainier and then lived right outside the Beltway in the Lanham/Greenbelt area. My dad was born in Berwyn over a hundred years ago.
Along with Baltimore, another legacy success story of Governor… Larry Hogan!!!
Remember now, the democrats have said it. All cultures are equal. /sarc
truly amazing how some still havent gotten it yet.
Since T.B. might be occupied at this moment, what do you propose?
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