PHILADELPHIA--about 50 young people were arrested for breach of a newly enforced curfew for minors cracking down on mob of young people responsible for the random attacks on people, as well as damage to property, police in Philadelphia said Saturday.
The arrests began Friday at 9 am, downtown and on South Street, a 10-block strip of bars, restaurants and shops at the edge of the city centre, a meeting place for young people and 20-somethings, said that for a long time police spokeswoman Officer Tanya little.
Mayor Michael Nutter announced last week a curfew from 9 P.m. for those under 18 years of age on Fridays and Saturdays downtown and in the nearby college town, home to the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.
A first arrest could mean a fine of $100 to $300, and fine up to $500 for consecutive injuries could be parents of their children. In other parts of the city remains the curfew for those under 13 10 am and midnight for those under 18 years of age.
Other measures in the crackdown include increased enforcement, a campaign, to entrepreneurs, their security cameras with the Police Department register hours for 20 youth centres in the city preserved and expanded.
In a mob attack last month a man in the hospital with broken teeth and a jaw wired, landed after him attacked a group of young people downtown. Hour a lot of young people later attacked four other men. An 11-year-old boy was arrested among the four young people in the case.
Nutter took the pulpit of his own West Philadelphia Church last weekend from young people violent mob involved in call, that have left several people injured in recent weeks and said parents need to get lives more in their children.
"You have corrupted themselves, you have damaged someone else, you have damaged your colleagues and, frankly, you have your own race, damaged," said the Mayor, who is black. He called also abwesender involvement of fathers and negligent parents of teens who are attacks, of which many African-Americans.
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