Curfew Law Argument Essay Example

escapee from the penitentiary this law confines teenagers in.

We know you (our parents and other adults in Claremore that agree with the curfew law) didn't grow up in the same conditions we have to grow up in, but this is what we've been raised in. We know what to expect when we go out at night. We know what kind of people and dangers that are out there. If you are worried that we are going to cause trouble then you must not trust us very much. I know that there are kids out there that do nothing but cause trouble, but never the less that does not mean every other teenager in that community should be punished. To a teenager a curfew law is just another reason for police to pull you over at night. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, it is also another way for the city to make money. Considering that each issued curfew ticket is $122, they eventually add up to a nice sum of money. I know how much they cost because I've received one in the past. I was coming back from Walmart one Friday night when I was seventeen years old. It was 3:00 a.m. and I was driving a black Eagle Talon sports car. The windows on the vehicle were tinted very dark, so there is no way the officer could have seen my friend or I in the vehicle. We were neither speeding nor driving recklessly, so there was no reason for the officer to pull us over. He saw a black sports car on a Friday night and just assumed there were

teenagers in it doing something illegal.

To most adults this law is just fine. This is because you have never had to experience its control and because it doesn't affect you at all. That is unless one of your sons or daughters receive a ticket. Try to imagine for a moment that you are in our position. For example, take a regular away-high school football game in which your team are the visitors. You want to go watch your best friends play but you know that you won't get back in time to make the curfew, or say your seventeen and you want to go to a movie on a Friday night, but unless your back home before 1:30 a.m. your libel to be charged with a curfew violation because the community doesn't think we are responsible enough to go to a late movie. I realize these examples