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Activists say they’re prepared to sue Chicago over city’s youth curfew

People visit the Cloud Gate in Millennium Park in Chicago, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Mayor Lori Lightfoot called for an increased enforcement of a 10 p.m. curfew for teens on May 17, 2022, after a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot near the iconic attraction.

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Activists say they’re prepared to sue Chicago over city’s youth curfew

People visit the Cloud Gate in Millennium Park in Chicago, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Mayor Lori Lightfoot called for an increased enforcement of a 10 p.m. curfew for teens on May 17, 2022, after a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot near the iconic attraction.

Nam Y. Huh/AP

Earlier Chicago curfew isn’t reducing crime

People visit the Cloud Gate in Millennium Park in Chicago, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Mayor Lori Lightfoot called for an increased enforcement of a 10 p.m. curfew for teens on May 17, 2022, after a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot near the iconic attraction.

Nam Y. Huh/AP

   

A new analysis of police data suggests that Mayor Lightfoot’s amended curfew for city youth is having little effect on crime and is hitting Black and brown neighborhoods disproportionately.

Reset discusses the impact of the youth curfew.

GUEST: Melody Mercado, Block Club Chicago reporter covering the Loop, West Loop, River North and the Gold Coast

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