If cities won’t put violent criminals behind bars, law-abiding citizens end up losing some of their freedoms. Philadelphia is moving to make permanent its curfew banning minors from being outside after 10 pm, as violent crime keeps rising. Innocent young people are paying the price for the city’s refusal to put most violent criminals behind bars.
Philadelphia’s City Council has voted to make permanent the 10 pm curfew that was in place this summer for almost everyone under the age of 18:
Philadelphia’s summertime curfew could soon become permanent. City council passed a bill Thursday afternoon that would make the summer curfew permanent.
Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson proposed the legislation and is a mother herself.
Gilmore Richardson says her goal is to protect Philadelphia’s young people who all too often fall victim to the city’s violence.
“There are too many young people who have been involved in crime or criminal incidents simply because they have been out late at night,” she said.
what a waste of time and effort , this will help?
I’m quite sure that senator elect Fetterman has a solution. I thinks it’s funny to watch folks reap what they sow.
Salisbury has needed this for years but Jake Day is too much of a pussy to do it . Bisexual freak
If you grew up near the Beltway, every night on TV there’d be a PSA announcement: “It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”