Posted on 05/13/2014 5:38:41 PM PDT by rickmichaels
ANNAPOLIS - Baltimore has become the latest U.S. city planning to set curfews for teenagers to curb rising crime, with critics calling the move legal overreach.
The Baltimore City Council voted late on Monday to require children under 14 to be off the streets by 9 p.m., and those under 16 to be home by 10 p.m.
Parents can be fined $500 if their children are caught on the street after the curfew.
Democratic Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she would sign the law next month, calling it a much-needed tool. The curfew would take effect in July.
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Midnight basketball is cancelled????
Bring back spanking!
“with critics calling the move legal overreach.”
Now cry me a river. Curfews are nothing new. It was 9 PM in the town where I attended High School, and it was enforced. When the whistle blew at the mill, you had better be at least heading for home. AND if there were more than three in a group, you were split up.
All sports were done by 9 PM if later, they made exceptions for that night.
Liberalism is running amuck in Maryland.
$15/hour fast food jobs is the answer. /s
Like that’s going to do anything.
Each and every parent in Baltimore should be ashamed the city even needs to pass this law....
My children after they were 16 years old had to be home by 8:00 on school nights and midnight on weekends..any younger you were home by 6:00 unless they was a good reason....
Each and every parent in Baltimore should be ashamed the city even needs to pass this law....
My children after they were 16 years old had to be home by 8:00 on school nights and midnight on weekends..any younger you were home by 6:00 unless they was a good reason....
I’m not sure a $500 fine is going to impress the single moms. Maybe debiting their EBT cards, but the ticket is just going in the round file. I mean, what is the city going to do? Arrest mom? Seize her assets? Take the kid away?
Just another feel good, useless ordinance.
Smartphones a Social Media has really changed the game as far as enforcement. The “youths” travel is large groups and move spontaneously from one part of a city to the next. Cops show in one part of town, the kids move somewhere else.
I was raised not to do anything stupid. My dad always said nothing good happens after midnight. Boy was he right.
But since they are overwhelmingly black, and this law specifically targets them..isn’t it thus racist.
And just how many of these little proto-thugs are actually going to be carrying proof of age, or even ID for the cops to check? Don’t worry - it’s the People’s Republic of Maryland. Once they noodle out how to issue government-mandated identification papers to them, they’ll find a way to expand it to the general populace, state-wide. A mark on the forehead or the back of the hand will do nicely for that Godless cabal in Annapolis. On the other hand, the second the first underage gang-banger is stopped for ‘walking while black’, the ACLU will start a virtual left-wing Hatfields vs. McCoys feud in court, and the whole thing will collapse into a pile of ash.
Since it’s Obama’s sons causing most of the trouble, are they the only ones that will have the curfew?
Not if innocent kids are made to suffer along with them.
What if they are going to the Orioles game? Games are not over by 9 pm.
Baltimore is a predominantly black city. How many intact black families are there in Baltimore? Most are headed by women. So the 'parents' in this case are mostly black women. Thus the law is targeted at minority females and is both racially and sexually discriminatory - unconstitutional on its face.
Top of the 9th now.
It isn’t a racist law, because the mayor signing it is also black (and female, to boot). See how it works?
Several years ago we had a school truancy program run in a couple of the districts in the Houston suburban schools. It was strongly supported by the JP’s. If a student missed more than an allotted number of days, the parents were hauled in front of the JP. Several received substantial fines, many were referred for mandated weekly family counseling and some parents spent a few nights in jail. Attendance did improve and some families managed to get their act together. Unfortunately, the program was scuttled after two years due to a lack of financial support. But that was back when kids actually had a male father and a female mother.
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