RE: North Carolina city implements curfew for all minors
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and politicians always appeal to our sense of right while the (un-?)intended consequences remain in the future.
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I have tried to think about what else the community could do though to deal with teenage crime and general mayhem. I know Fayetteville (the city in the story) is kind of a "no go" area for the rest of us because it is seen as a crime-ridden dump. I never attempted to attribute it to teenagers though.
what do you think the community could do?
Well, actual criminals should be punished in a way that provides restitution to their victims, and everyone else should be left alone. We need churches and other voluntary organizations reaching out to these kids without being preachy.
You saying this just reminded me of a youth outreach program in my own high-school town where they would provide fun games and stuff for kids to do as well as food BUT it came along with the gospel and a sort of "forced by peer pressure" to participate in it. It would be a long time before I kind of took offense to this because it wasn't real charity, it was attempts at recruiting.