Is Montgomery County unknowingly invoking a Willie Horton strategy to push a youth curfew?
County leaders have taken to using the now-famous Germantown flash mob video to persuade a skeptical public to submit to fines and parenting classes for adults whose children are caught outside at night. See, for example, the article below in the Gaithersburg Patch:
This strategy is problematic (and just plain silly) for a number of reasons:
