In the antebellum South, whites regulated what times slaves and free blacks could be on the streets. America's first wave of juvenile curfew laws took hold in the late nineteenth century. Currently three-fourths of United States cities of more than 100,000 population have curfew laws on their books. Many other cities, in California and elsewhere, are considering such laws, and California is considering a statewide daytime curfew. Conversely, what experts and the media aren't saying about the deteriorating behaviors of adults is even more incredible.
Youth deploy decreases in felonies.
That curfew laws help in decreasing juvenile crime and violence. In recent years, cities and localities across the United States have expanded the use of youth curfews to address growing public concern about juvenile crime and violence. By reducing the number of young people on the street during certain hours, curfews are assumed to lessen the number of circumstances in which youth crime can occur. It is also assumed that curfews reduce youth crime by deterring young people from being on the streets at certain hours out of fear of being arrested. To determine whether curfews were a factor in the drop of crime amongst young people, the Justice Policy Institute examined data from the state of California from 1978 through 1996, the first comprehensive study of the issue.