{"id":2885,"date":"2020-06-09T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:48:05","slug":"dozens-of-cities-across-the-country-are-imposing-curfews-do-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of cities across the country are imposing curfews. Do they work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;It is unclear whether ordering emergency curfews \u2014 that is, telling people they must stay at home and avoid public areas after a certain time in the evening, and increasing public police presence to enforce it \u2014 is effective in reducing unrest. Criminologists note there doesn\u2019t appear to be an abundance of research on the matter. But some experts have raised concerns about the way curfews are likely to be enforced in communities of color and argue they could exacerbate the very dynamics that gave rise to the unrest in the first place: namely, that they will encourage confrontational policing at a time when people are demanding the opposite.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;\u201cCurfews are an extremely blunt tool that should only be used sparingly and as a last result. They give police tremendous power to intervene in the lives of all citizens,\u201d he said. \u201cThey pose a huge burden on people who work irregular hours, especially people of color in service professions who may need to travel through areas of social disturbance in order to get to and from work at night.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/31\/21275996\/curfew-george-floyd-protest-los-angeles\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/5\/31\/21275996\/curfew-george-floyd-protest-los-angeles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is unclear whether ordering emergency curfews \u2014 that is, telling people they must stay at home and avoid public areas after a certain time in the evening, and increasing public police presence to enforce it \u2014 is effective in reducing unrest. Criminologists note there doesn\u2019t appear to be an abundance of research on the matter. But some experts have raised concerns about the way curfews are likely to be enforced in communities of color and argue they could exacerbate the very dynamics that gave rise to the unrest in the first place: namely, that they will encourage confrontational policing at a time when people are demanding the opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cCurfews are an extremely blunt tool that should only be used sparingly and as a last result. They give police tremendous power to intervene in the lives of all citizens,\u201d he said. \u201cThey pose a huge burden on people who work irregular hours, especially people of color in service professions who may need to travel through areas of social disturbance in order to get to and from work at night.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[871,872,285,362,870,856,48],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-curfews","tag-looting","tag-police","tag-protests","tag-research","tag-riots","tag-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}