US: Analysts say curfews don’t work; cities bet on them as a tool against youth gun violenceJuvenile Justice Information Exchange

Baltimore’s top elected official vowed to reinstate a curfew last month after a 14-year-old and 16-year-old were shot and injured — allegedly by a teen wielding an untraceable gun made from a kit — while police were dispersing a crowd of 200 youth.“I want everyone to hear me and hear me clearly,” Mayor Brandon Scott said during a press conference regarding youth-on-youth gun violence, amid what, he added, was the city’s overall drop in gun and other violent crimes. “We are going back to the old days. We will be enforcing a youth curfew as we move into the latter spring and summer months.”Anyone 14 years and younger must be off the streets by 9 p.m. nightly as Baltimore resurrects a youth curfew it last imposed in 2014.In the 1980s and early 1990s, youth curfews gained popularity as the nation grappled with that era’s record-setting crime. In recent years, as youth homicides have risen — homicide is the third leading cause of death among 10- through 24-year-olds — the National Youth Rights Association has counted 400 towns, cities, counties and states with youth curfews.

Source: Analysts say curfews don’t work; cities bet on them as a tool against youth gun violenceJuvenile Justice Information Exchange