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> ° layin charges - --. they could
_..... Simply order. everyone home.
| They -have also. ‘suggested |
_ that:-the .bylaw “would be-
~ enforced : with . discretion”
and: only. when: necessary to .
“ maintain order... OBER os

The request ‘for ‘the- -cur-.
. few, you may recall, came
last February. © from- ~ the
RCMP, who told’ City. and
District councils that vandal-
ism by. youthful - -hoodlums
“was running. into ‘thousands
of dollars. The: police report-: :
ed. continuing» “complaints. -
from business. peopie .and™
residents © about - juveniles” :
loitering on the streets and in -
public areas, damaging priv:
_ ate property, smoking’ pot,
drinking beer, ‘intimidating ” :
. passers-by and creating bed-__
lam late into the night. .

. One of the worst areas at -
that time was the 1900 block.
Lonsdale -- where the police
report told of youths spitiing —

-the © streets, littering

Saxon concept of j justice.’ SS
; sidewalks, urinating in door- .

ways, swearing, ‘stealing,
fighting and smashing. beer ‘on the street at 11:01 p.m., °
: bottles. ; - you’re.there for the purpose
| of taking part. in. a-riot.. That.
“001s FOR THE son” - 4s’ what “the draft. ‘curfew :

bylaw is really saying .
All in all, the RCMP made
a a pretty impressive presenta-
‘tion in support of their call —
fora curfew of the type-
already in force in Coquitiam —
‘and Surrey. They asked for.
“additional tools. to: ‘do. the |
job’’,, and anyone who ‘nas -
watched a mob. of inebriated.
‘young: punks jeering .and_
throwing rocks and bottles at |
the constabulary knows that.
the job in question can be a_
tough and thankless one,

“Also;
“patently unfair to the 9S per

come home unescorted by
ete 30 p.m., he will suddenly

“against - society.»

Jawbreaker. ©

weeks older, he can. stay out
. However, counterbalanc-
ing this disturbing picture of.
night-time mayhem on the —

_ streets and avenues of North
Vancouver, came also the —
admission by the RCMP that
the trouble is caused by less _
than five per cent of the local _
teenage population. More-

blessing.
However, there’ S a more
viewpoint ‘of’ society _ itself.

_Laws, whether. good or bad,
“are made to be. obeyed. If

over, the police had some enforced uniformly —-and
rather curious reasoning equitably, they merely en-
. about the use of a curfew courage contempt for the law
bylaw. in general.

‘In. the present: case. the
RCMP have suggested | that
This means, ‘first, that a the curfew would enable
curfew would automatically - them to disperse an unruly
punish an overwhelming. 95 late-night gathering. without
per cent or more of North —

Van's good kids under 17 ==
the ones who pg» to movies aml
and dances, visit friends on &
Friday and Saturday night, —

and are,.presently, .unlikely, &
ever to give the police a
moment's trouble -- for the
sins of a tiny lunatic fringe.

PRESUMED GUILTY *

In effect, if the purpose of
the curfew is to curb teenage |
disturbances, it means that

“Only
3 eames

. some -

all cases. |

ce 95 | per” ‘cent of. North: Van’ s
ve youngsters would find them-.

selves in the . position ‘of.
‘being. presumed guilty. until: oS
proved innocent -; a. radical.
_reversal of the basic Anglo- -

which i is obviously, ridiculous. a
‘of. course, it. is
cent. If a law-abiding young-~

‘ster ‘of 16 years and 11°
‘months occasionally wants to.

be. commiting - ‘an. offence
He’ will a
either have to change ‘his.
harmless. habit or become a.
“T€* he’s five |

all night with the law’ Ss full
.dangercus aspect from the -

they are not --.or cannot be -- | |

a Cases: “a

In theory the otfier use of. =
‘the curfew. bylaw..would be ~

for patrol cars to comb every.

street and avenue in North |.
Vancouver. from..11 p.m. .

- onward, - ‘stopping - everyone oS
~ who, from a‘quick glance in —
the dark; might be under.17.
- But this, it seems, is hardly
what. they haye-1 in. n mind.

are’ ‘how the new ‘Jaw would

“help police: confronted | by a
. crowd of. teenage rioters of. |.
“mixed ages -- half of them, -

‘say, under 17, half over 17.

Or what the value of the law

would be in the case of bottle |

and rock-throwing © parties

held before 11 p-m..

WHAT IS ADDED? -

The . police” need all “the

public support they can get .

ss seem. inten

# veo exactly, ‘the ‘bylaw:
"would: help ‘the’ police dis-
-perse an unruly mo! without
first verifying the age of each.
-of .the young. hoodlums_ .
“involved is far from clear. In -

| youthful _
rowdy’ S age may. be fairly
_ obvious, but certainly. not in,
If an. oversize. ~
A6-year-old tells the police -

he’s. “how. -do | they —
; disprove it? And how, inthat ..
_event,.can they: legally. order...

him: home under the bylaw? |

The: commofisense answer, vy
ofc course, is that they simply
ae order. him home anyway --.as
_ “an”. alternative - “to. being .
at you’ re under " and out ‘charged. Which .is - ‘exactly. a
- what the police are entitled .
“to do. already, without any ;
“curfew.

through "is. going:

We sa law. that ‘unjustly es
© penalizes the overwhelming .—
~ majority of North Van young- —
'sters and, as’ such, has a ~
potential for developing anti- .
social attitudes in those who.

have ‘never: previously © had
any anti-social leanings. .

SO.

in dealing with the very real - po
problem posed. by. North &

Van's four or five per cent of |
teen hooligans and vandals. =
But it’s difficult to see how, -

highly |

in practice, the
discriminatory curfew — that

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