Charlotte has spent years talking about youth violence, dangerous gatherings and the increasingly common “teen takeovers” that disrupt public spaces and put both young people and everyone around them at risk. Now, our City Council has an opportunity to do something about it.
The proposed update to Charlotte’s youth curfew ordinance deserves support.
That may surprise some people coming from us. We have spent years on opposite sides of many issues at City Hall. Tariq generally begins from a belief that public safety requires giving law enforcement the tools they need. Larken tends to begin by asking whether a policy is equitable, practical or likely to create unintended consequences. We don’t always arrive at the same conclusion…