Yes, you are correct and my response there is invalid.
A 10% reduction in crime, shows that the curfew works. Continuing to quote the 29% number just lets us know you don't understand causation versus correlation, much less causal effect.
Strawman argument.
If a kid is out after curfew and the cops ask for an ID, that isn't harassment, that's law enforcement. Which by the way, is the cops' job. Also, by your own admission, there was a 10% drop in crime, therefore, the cops are actually doing what you said they should be doing, by enforcing the curfew. Again, ensuring that a law is not being broken (asking young people for ID when they are out after curfew) is not harassment. If a person looks young, and they are outside after curfew, then the officer has probable cause to ask for ID (such as what's done in a Terry stop) to investigate whether the young person is breaking the law.
The curfew took up 29% of the day for what percentage of the population? You see? You still aren't discussing these numbers in full context. The 29% and the 10% are not directly related. Let's walk through just a few quick possibilities: Let's say that the majority (75% let's say) of those under 18 are not out after 12am and before 5am because they are getting ready for school the next day by sleeping. That leaves us 25%. Of that 25%, some of those young people have dropped out of school and are at work at the 24 hour Walmart or McDonalds (let's say, 10%), so that leaves us 15%. Out of that 15% remaining, some are already in jail (let's say 5%). That leaves us 10%. You may say, wow, that coincides with the 10% in the drop in crime. But, you would be wrong. Why? Because none of that crap I just typed matters, because the 10% drop in crime goes against ALL crime statistics which include crimes perpetrated by adults, not just juveniles. You see now? I wrote a hell of a lot of percentage numbers above and none of them mean any more than the 29% you keep grasping to. There is no causal relationship between the percentage of the clock that is covered by the curfew and the percentage of drop in crime over the entire population of adults and juveniles.
Ignorance is a bitch. If those kids were in school during the day and in bed at night, then they may get educated on a number of issues, including the curfew law, plus have the added bonuses of not breaking the law (because they're in bed at might during curfew hours) and would be better prepared to get a job when they graduate allowing them to not need to be out all night getting into trouble.
most curfew violations happen when they're out of school. I think a curfew applying to those under 13 would be reasonable but I'm against the current one
I never heard about the youth curfew until recently; not once did the school mention such a thing, even in government history. I heard about it because a few days ago, I was on TV tropes.org looking at the page for public service announcements and one of the PSAs which used to air asked "It's 10PM, do you know where your kids are?" and it left me wondering if there was a youth curfew and sure enough, there was, but it was enforced at the local level.
