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Rochester youth curfew

By: WROC-TV
Updated: August 9, 2007
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CITYCURFEWPROGRAM2007-08-09-1186698668.jpgRochester Mayor Bob Duffy says the city's youth curfew is working and he wants to extend it another year.


The pilot program is set to expire next month. Right now, it requires kids 16 and under off the streets after 11 on weekdays, on weekends. Teens in violation are taken to the Hillside Center on

East Main Street
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As of late last month, 60 kids have been taken to Hillside since the curfew began. And Duffy has seen a dramatic drop in youth violence. Before the curfew an average of 33 kids were arrested each month. That number has now dropped to 13 a month.


"We're seeing some great signs, and the curfew was never put forth as the answer to our problems.  It's a tool," says Duffy.

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