Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks held a press conference Monday about the new curfew would begin next weekend and last for 30 days. Anyone under 17 will be forbidden from public areas between 10 pm and 5 am on weeknights unless escorted by a parent. On weekends the curfew begins at midnight and will be enforced by police.
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It's not going to make a difference. If the little thugs don't respect any other laws, why would they respect a curfew?
I was raised as a military dependent and was on the exact same curfew any time we lived on post. It wasn't that big of a deal, and there was damned little youth crime.
The difference was, for the most part we were raised by both parents in a structured environment, and they taught us respect to others.
Unless accompanied by a parent.???
ReplyDeleteThat's a problem for quite a few of those kids.
All they know about a father is the name on the monthly check that comes in.
Their dad's name is 'welfare'.
Why won't they ever just call a spade, a spade?
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DeleteBoth parents, biggest factor in the world.
ReplyDeleteYour parents taught you respect?
ReplyDeleteWeird.
Have their homes be raided yet?
There should be a subheading for the naming of generations... a respect scale. It's been dropping like a stone for forty years. The ones in their 20s now are blowing the formerly legend millennials out of the water. And I do MEAN clear out...like ICBMs launched from the blind worms on the ocean floor.
ReplyDeleteOh, and, I should add, Boomers are still getting the blame. I'm thinking those of us who might have made the best parents opted out because this world was no way to treat someone you love, or just had to wait so long to be able to provide for a family it just wasn't going to happen anymore. So, if we were in some wise to blame, it would have been that, the decision not to kill ourselves bringing up the kind of good, strong, respectful people needed so badly now. --nines
ReplyDeleteWhen feral children are raised in an environment that says little Dindu shouldn't fear for his life just because he's committing armed robbery, guess what.......
ReplyDeleteDemographics of Prince George County
ReplyDeletehttps://www.pgchealthzone.org/demographicdata
seem like they most of 'em cullut....
Delete3-2-1- BOOM! Law suit to stop the cerfew just filed by Rubinowitz, Rubinowitz and Rubinowitz law firm for their clients Dashawnda and Quishoney Brown.
ReplyDeleteAnd as a military dependent there was always the threat of "Your misbehavior will damage your father's career". That was remarkably effective.
ReplyDeleteWhich in turn would damage my ass.
DeleteI knew a family with two daughters, three boys got kicked off base and dad court martialed. Two of the boys were terrors. Bullies at school, getting into michief elsewhere.
DeleteThe last straw was when the youngest boy caused damage to an electronics shack and spray painted curse words on the exterior walls.
“Which in turn would damage my ass.“
DeleteCoffee came out my nose on that one.
Buddha
kid's had two deterrents to thuggery when i was young. good parents and leather. leather solved many problems. ADHD? apply some leather. it worked every time,and it worked fast.
ReplyDeletethey didn't need to drug the kids. hell i got my ass whipped with a wooden coke-a-cola box one time at a gas station. daddy had left his belt at the house, it was all that was close at hand. i was just glad he didn't think about all of those radiator hoses and fan belts on the wall in the shop. remember them?
Tar and Feathers would work, this BS won’t!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Bowie in PG county from age 7-14. It was a great place to fish, find frogs, snakes, turtles and lizards. Until and unless we are willing to call out the darkies, this shit won't stop. I'm sick of it. Are you? They aren't killing each other at a fast enough rate to make a difference. Now they are focusing on yt.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a strange time and place. I was born in the 60's, in a very small town in West Michigan. We had maybe 1,000 people total in our village limits, which were a mile square. Every parent was willing and able to discipline everyone else's kids. That didn't mean abuse them, but a spank on the ass, if deserved, was sometimes administered. Usually a simple scolding, along with a threat of a call to parents, was enough to make the kid act right.
ReplyDeleteI have 4 siblings, with a twin. By the time I came along, I think that my parents must have been plumb tuckered out, because I honestly do not remember getting spanked other than one time. That was the time that all 5 of us got into a pillow fight, and it was one to be remembered. There were feathers everywhere, just like you see on the old movies and television programs. It was truly epic, a thing of beauty. Until my parents saw it. They didn't spank me very hard, but I knew that they were disappointed in us, and that was the worst part of the whole thing, for me.
I was the sort of kid that never got into trouble, did not make my parents get called from the principal of the school to come and pick me up for acting up, none of that. The teachers and administration and even the cooks and janitors all liked me, until the day I graduated. I know, what a strange kid, right? That is just how I was, and still am. I treat everyone right, and never try and cause anyone harm. I do get angry with people, but it takes a lot to really get me mad enough to step up and act on it. But if I do, it is something that gets the other person's attention. The last time I let go, and hit someone, was as long ago as high school football. A player on the other team kicked one of our players who was on the ground, and the ref didn't see it. I punched the guy in the facemask. It actually almost knocked him down. I wore hand pads, on both hands, but I still got bleeding knuckles on that hand, and swollen fingers that I noticed after the game. I don't know if it made any difference to that guy, but I sure felt better.
I have gotten pretty mad on a lot of occasions since then, but have grown up enough to keep my emotions in check. I can't say that I would not step in and fight someone who kicked one of my friends who was on the ground, but I would weigh the consequences first. I don't go off half cocked like I did when I was 17 anymore. Prison or a beaten ass, neither one seems like fun anymore.
If it takes a village to f' up kids, then the village should be fixing the problem. The bigger majority of kids need do so some wall-to-wall counseling on the ones causing problems.
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