Teenage freedom fighter

A teenager who is being called “W” for legal reasons is going to take his local council and police force to court over new anti-yob laws. The specific complaint is over “dispersal areas” where police can send home anyone under the age of 16 between 21:00 and 06:00. The idea behind this is to stop young offenders being able to prowl these areas at night. Local councils say that the laws have had a positive effect, but personally, I believe that that’s irrelevant. The 15 year old is right to challenge this law. The Government are here to protect us from physical force, but they cannot use that same force to ban people from an area simply because of their age, we might as well remove anyone over the age of 70 from the town during peak mugging times, that would reduce the crime, but at what cost? Of course this is a silly example, nobody would seriously propose such an idea, but why is it then that we can do the same thing to our children? X I remember when I was a teenager, it wasn’t that long ago, I remember the dirty looks I used to get from shop keepers when they believed that I might steal something. Of course I never did, but the sentiment is very common, teenagers are seen as criminals without any provocation just because of their age. The shop owner is perfectly within his rights to practice due diligence within his shop to protect his livelihood, but the same does not apply to our government, we cannot assume guilty until proven innocent, what is needed is stronger punishment for those that do break the law, not more restrictions to those that don’t.