DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.

Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.

Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.

@mattblaze Having just made a brief run to the store at 8:30p on a Saturday, I found myself pretty annoyed with the Youths that were out being loud for no reason.

But that is just being in public, and the sad fact that Target and Walmart are what amount to Third Spaces these days.

Being loud is something the US is at least as incoherent about as being young

@foxxtrot @mattblaze