SEATTLE - The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. will begin enforcing youth curfew hours throughout the summer in an attempt to reduce juvenile crime around the area. The curfew, which will start on Monday, July 8 and will be in effect until at least August, mandates that individuals under the age of 17 must remain indoors from 12:01 a.m. to 6 a.m., seven days a week.
Between 2016 and 2022, MPD officers arrested on average 2,235 juveniles in a given year involving youth under the age of 18. This is an average of 52 arrests per 1,000 children and youth between the ages of 10 and 17.
