" Some good and varied points being voiced here, but my feeling is that any kind of discipline is better than none. Have you checked out how many cars get broken into each month! Maybe 11pm is a bit more realistic than 10pm, but if our Police are cruising around looking for these kids, then something good is going to come out of it. As for the gangs, I think it is time we got really tough and investigate the legal residency status in all gang related arrests. If they are not legal then boot them out pronto. These Latino gangs are a serious degredation in our society. "

" we have one, and have for years!!! it was here in the 70's, but has NEVER been inforced. we don't need a new one, just inforce the existing....duh "

" It's a waste of law enforcement's time and our tax money, though I am sure the police would prefer to be arresting teenagers "crusing the J" instead of performing dangerous police work... "

" a curfew won't work!! They will do what they please but they'll just do it earlier

" many other cities in the Bay Area have such curfews in place, but the gang activity and shootings still happen. The police need to be more vigilant in contacting these groups. Immigration can also be used to extradite gang members that are here illegally. "

" Um, if our one time Police Chief denied the problem, it could have been eradicated a long time ago. The discouraging of a problem discourages those who might be the cause of it.
Since that didn't happen, there needs to be extremely strong measures to eliminate it. The ACLU and other whiners be d***ed. I have no doubt that Law Enforcement knows who the majority of these miscreants are.
Maybe it is time to reign them in and watch gang related crime decrease exponentially. "

" Gang members KILL people. Why would they be worried about a curfew? If they were afraid of the law they wouldn't be hurting people in the first place. My brother is a 16 year old jr. who starts on the varsity football team for VHS. Has good grades & good friends. He and my parents would giggle at the thought of him having to be home by 10 on the weekends. My parents will not enforce that curfew because they have trust for him and for his friends and until they lose that trust, nothing is going to change. & lets be honest, even if our parents did care, I wouldn't have listened my senior year. There are movies that start at 10, some of the football games don't even get over untill about that time and who doesnt go to In and Out after the game?! There are going to be MANY teenagers who will not follow the curfew & many parents who won't enforce it. If this curfew is REALLY for teenagers involved in gang activity then HELLO!! These teens are killing other kids. These teens are using things like guns, knives, and bats. These teens are using drugs and drinking. A parent that pays any attention to their teen would notice when their teens are doing things like this. You smell the alchol and the smoke. There are sick in the bathroom the next morning after a long night. Most gang members in this area are in either red or blue. Only one or the other, they NEVER wear both. If you look through their belongings you find gang related music, colored belts/rags and drawings. If parents can't stop what their teen is already doing then why would they be able to have there kids home by10?!! "

" I hate to break this to everyone, but, being a teenager and closer to the issue than most adults are (a teenager who doesn’t, by the way, participate in gang activity), I know that most gangbangers (the REAL ones, not the people walking around in baggy pants) are not even in school--they're in their early twenties and up. I don't see how a curfew on the younger people of the community would make us safer from the twenty-year-olds who are causing the trouble. Making a curfew would only punish the city's youth for crimes they didn't commit. I'm willing to acknowledge the fact that not all teenagers make good decisions, and there are those troublemakers and gang members. But that's like punishing the whole generation when only one person is misbehaving. "

" YES! I agree with musikluvr! Of course, the ACLU and the rest of the liberals will say a curfew will hurt teenagers' feelings and violate their rights. When did we all stop putting safety first? "

" A curfew is not the answer--or, at best, onlya small part of one. This town has fewer productive opportunities for young people than anyplace I've been. We need social outlets for youthful energy (sports, entertainment, volunteerism) more than (or at least as much) as repression! But, of course, planning and providing for these opportunities takes time, thought and even money. Much easier to just bash the kids. "

" Idle hands are the devil's playground. There is no reason for a person under 18 to be out after 10PM without adult supervision. "