Curfews only exist in places with high rates of juvenile crime, curfew laws aren introduced baselessly, right?
Wrong. In response to a grisly string of murders in Manning, South Carolina, the city council proposed a youth curfew in response.7 The problem however was the criminal suspect was 37-years-old and the proposed youth curfew would have had no effect whatsoever on the murders that shocked this small town. The experience of Manning is not unusual. Communities choose to enact curfew laws that have no problems with youth crime whatsoever. In fact except for the elderly, juvenile crime makes up the lowest proportion of crime altogether.
