I am in favor of knowing where your teenagers are at night. I have two.
But I do not think that children under 18 are a great way to protect the general public or any way to curb adolescent boredom, which is so often at night during these hot summer months.
So after the Myrtle Beach City Council voted on Tuesday at midnight’s midnight hour until 9 p.m. In the city center and in the city parks and property, I have to admit that I am skeptical, especially since the council was told that the direction would actually begin after 10 hours.
So much for uttering the word that city officials now say they will do in social media, PSA, far from North Carolina, and using the Boardwalk speakers, starting at 7 p.m. At 7 p.m.
The issue of age, which is interested in the Myrtle Beach, is, of course, the moment you deprive many rights and privileges for several mistakes.
In recent weeks, Myrtle beach has some shootings on the ocean boulevard, while residents, police, politicians and the business community want people to be safe.
Two members of society expressed doubts about the commandant’s hour on Tuesday. One supported.
There are reasonable exceptions before starting their doubts.
Children under the age of 18 will be good if they are with parents or guardians, working on the sidewalk outside their homes due to an emergency, recreational activities supervised by adults and supported by the city or civic organization or exercising their first amendment.
I do not know if we will see a 17-year-old uplift, which recites the phrase “People’s right to gather peacefully”, but it would be great if so. However, I know that there are better ways to maintain peace for police officers than asking teenagers who may not have and probably have no ID how old they are.
“I have been there since 1988,” said Chris Walker, sponsor and business owner of Curfew on Tuesday. “Many things have changed, but just having shooting shootings on our street is not what I signed.
“It’s my American dream,” he said. “I love this city. But extraordinary circumstances take special measures to correct them. I think 9 hours is something we have to agree with. And we don’t do it easily. We have a business, we have to make money. We have to make sure our customers and our employees are safe.”
Walker owns an ice cream shop, two coffee shops, a house being persecuted and several parking lots on Myrtle Beach. On weekends, he has four security guards for $ 27 per hour for a patrol.
He also has 80 cameras and said they recorded “things you see in video games” that “do not respect human life, and it is a sad state of where we are now.”
Quick Description:
A 18-year-old from Bennettsville fired a weapon in the crowd several times, a nearby officer shot and killed him, and 11 people were injured on April 26. Two 18-year-olds from North Carolina, two minors and the fifth person were arrested after June 12. The crowd struck a pistol. And the 17-year-old who worked at the Peaches Corner restaurant and killed 18 years after June 27th.
I believe that every incident read terribly about it and to witness or experience more terrifyingly. I am for any reasonable actions that could protect one of South Carolina’s most popular places in safe and inviting places and keep residents, visitors and all the people working in the area.
And I get that desperate call of times to take hopeless measures, as Walker told the council on Tuesday.
But I also contradict the drastic government that creates new problems rather than solving existing ones. And I think what my Myrtle beach has done is a rash.
That is why – and why is it interested in the beach of Myrtle to every city of Carolina.
Many questions
With little public debate, the City Council transferred its long, at the time of the 17-year-old unlimited driving privileges, three hours earlier, based on midnight commandant’s hour to the time he considered early on.
And the Council did so in order to resolve the shootings of 18-year-olds, or the 17-year-olds working in the area, series of persons who are more restrictive in the commandant’s hour.
In addition, the Council did so by agreeing that parents and guardians may be subject to a possible separate violation of the youth of the youth, which may be $ 500 or up to 30 days in prison. And the council did so when employees and business owners have imposed the same possible fine if the business deliberately allows young people to break the commandant’s hour in its premises.
In fact, the council did all of this with two votes. The first Tuesday vote – to be permanently accepted a new hour of the commandant – is needed for another final vote within two weeks. The second Tuesday vote announced the next two weekend “extraordinary events” to allow the city manager to immediately impose a commandant hour. Apparently, the “extraordinary event” is another term on the weekend on Myrtle Beach.
It is also worth discussing because the City Council has not done so, it is that the Council has done it all with politics, but without a thorough explanation and possibly even evaluating the execution methods, which would be related when the officers detain the Commandant Hours offenders. Before arresting anything for breaking the commandant’s hour, police officers will need to determine how old they are, which can be difficult when teenagers do not have their driving licenses or other identity, especially for a lot of time.
Do officials intend to turn to the crowd of people who seem to be teenagers and demand an ID? And what if most young people don’t have it? Or you can’t get your parents on the phone right away if the officer asks them to call adults? Is it assumed that they are all younger than age?
The officers will then have to accompany the detained young people to the Police Department. How long will it take them away from public security in the area and boulevard?
City officials said they would hire a “civilian minor monitors” to look after children whose parents or guardians live far and may take an hour or more to get them. This will release the officers to return to the boulevard, perhaps rounding more teens. But how will these monitors be hired? What is the price? And how will they be checked to make parents know that their children are safe until they are detained for 17 years on public street?
Again, I get it. April Shooting Ocean Boulevard deserved a much faster answer than the nasty mayor and the police chief reacted a few days later to facilitate concern. And one by one, shootings only cause fear between those who visit or work at the boulevard. Although business executives are mainly with the previous command of the commandant, they even say they need to do even more.
You know who agrees?
Researchers who have been studying city commandant in other areas for decades.
Here’s what 2023 NPR said Kristin Henning, Director of Justice Clinic of Julnezes at Georgetown University Law School Law School: “Several investigations have shown throughout the country that minor commandant hours are ineffective, that reduces crime and reduction of tricks.
The issue of society
Sasherola probably returns to days (and night) when cave children had to observe danger, such as hungry dinosaurs. Krumbocho worked as Charleston, Greenville and Rock Hill hugged to name several places.
Charleston City in June Accepted 9 p.m. For everyone under the age of 18, despite the resistance of the city’s affairs and the racial conciliation commission.
Colombian city with 11 p.m. The crane held the city’s commandant’s hour in response to five points only last year, but did not accept it.
This is partly because the Commandant hours sometimes have the opposite of what is intended: they can cause distrust of police and young people and cause more problems. They also give basically young people less to do, instead of holding and giving them a holistic approach something else to make.
There is also a more targeted approach to bad apples, whose misconduct first forces adults to consider the command of the commandant: “Decisions to turn to persons with bad behavior rather than on blankets Commandant hours.” Here’s what Colombian city manager expressed last year.
Myrtle beach took another measure, covering the command of the commandant and recruiting the help of parents – or otherwise.
“I think one thing that is very clear in our ordinance is that parents should be responsible for their minor children,” said Debbie Conner, a member of the council at a Tuesday meeting.
Will it work? We will see. We hope that we will also see another tactic used to reduce the shootings.
But if the city of Myrtle beach requires the previous command of the Commandant, I hope it also requires sharing the number of minors who are retained over time, especially on weekends. The juvenile court is closed to the public for appropriate reasons, so there is no way to follow the Commandant Hour violations.
The public deserves to regularly update the general information on the number of violations of the Commandant Hour, and with what other accusations are encountered by young people when they are detained after 9pm.
This would definitely help to assess the need and efficiency of the commandant’s hour – and would provide other South Carolina cities with heavy evidence to consider if they consider a similar approach to the public problem.