Curfew Among Teens

I believe the idea of the curfew for teens is quite a debatable subject. First of all, most kids have parents who are already expecting them to be home at a certain time anyways. Having a separate curfew provided by the town that police are supposed to enforce is just unnecessary. And for the kids who aren't expected to be home, will most likely be driving around all night to begin with. Leaving the curfew to act as just another reason to get in trouble; when in most cases these kids aren't doing anything harmful, malicious, or reckless. In the cases where they are doing bad things, they would most likely get caught anyways so the curfew is once again useless, making it only effective on kids who are trusted by their parents not to have a curfew, and mature enough to be out late at night not and doing anything wrong.

The main point of the curfew these days is to prevent young kids from staying out all night and committing harmful illegal acts. Some of them have parents that are at home sleeping and expecting them home, so this allows police to give kids a reason to be brought home. Also, staying home and getting sleep is an important thing to be encouraged, since sleep deprivation is a big problem among adolescents. But while this is all true, a once in a while adventure form the confines of everyday rules and laws is also healthy and stress reliving to everyone, not just young teens.

I think this curfew should be lifted, because there is nothing wrong in simply existing on the streets at a late hour. The real problem is kids who get involved in crime late at night, but the cops should be focusing on catching people like that in the first place. There are many teens that are good willed kids  who aren't out breaking the law, who are just out to have fun or to attend a concert, show, movie etc. past curfew. So if it wasn't illegal to be out late and not doing anything else wrong, these kids could go on with their lives. And the ones out doing things they shouldn't be, can face consequence like they normally would, curfew or no curfew.

Lil poopy

                                                                            

Recently, a 9 year old rapper by the name of "Lil poopy" has gone udner investigation for child neglect by the Brockton police. As seen above, he is pictured in his music videos making obscene getures, along with refrences to drugs in his lyrics. His manager and mentor, French Montana, assures everyone that he is taking good care of Lil poopy. I think there is no harm in investigating into his situation just to make sure the child isn't being neglected, considering that he is only 9 years old.