On July 1, the Montgomery City Council held a meeting where councilmember Marche Johnson asked the Montgomery Police Department (MPD) for more police “coverage” after 10 p.m. on weekend nights in downtown; as a result, on July 15, the city enacted a youth curfew in downtown.
“There have been a series of incidents happening downtown, in the entertainment district…so I’m asking for Friday and Saturday nights after 10 p.m. to have a higher [police] presence downtown,” said Johnson, who is the representative for District 3, which includes the entertainment district.
Johnson offered another solution that she had suggested last year, instituting a curfew. “I presented last year a curfew ordinance, I would like to reintroduce that,” said Johnson. Last year’s curfew order was unsuccessful, so Johnson will have to start a new ordinance from scratch to introduce at the next council meeting…