Shelter in place — nightly
Detective Robert Cherry, Jr., President- Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Lodge #3.
It’s extremely rare, like seeing Bigfoot riding a unicorn on to a spaceship, for a police association and the American Civil Liberties Union to agree on anything, ever. But sometimes a proposal is so transparent- such a politically inspired move, that the backlash winds up putting arch enemies on the same page. The new curfew in Baltimore, the setting for such gritty television police dramas as “The Wire”, will make it a violation for a youth under 14 to be outside their homes after 9 p.m. year-round. Those aged 14 to 16 would be banned from being outside on school nights after 10 p.m. and on other nights after 11 p.m. The American Civil Liberties Union, as well as the Fraternal Order of Police, have argued that the tougher curfew will be ineffective and burdens police officers who are given few guidelines about how to enforce it.
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