Mayor Keith Hobbs idea for a youth curfew to help combat crime will be facing its first test at Monday night’s Council meeting as a motion for a feasibility report is put to a vote.Hobbs says a curfew could help address social issues by helping to identify kids who would benefit from intervention and that it would need to be enforced with a lot of discretion by police.
The new Mayor feels a curfew would protect young people from being the victims of crime in addition to preventing them from being perpetrators.
Current River Ward Councilor Andrew Foulds isn’t in favour of the curfew and says the statistics he's seen don't point to youth as being a huge source of crime in the city.
Foulds says he believes that there are better ways to address the issues of young people.
If the motion is passed, a report on the curfew would be presented to Council by April.
