D.C. police pursue curfew enforcement for summer

Hoping to quell a rise in youth crime, the D.C. police department has promised to rigidly enforce the summer curfew.

Under D.C. law, anyone under the age of 17 has to be indoors by 12:01 a.m. during the summer. The curfew takes effect for the summer Saturday. The rest of the year, children have to be indoors by 11:01 p.m. on weeknights and 12:01 a.m. on weekends. Already, the department has made more than 1,500 curfew arrests this year, police say. That’s an increase of 18 percent over last year.