PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A stricter curfew for minors will be extended two weeks, because the measure has been successful in helping to curb violent attacks by teen mobs that had severely injured several people in recent months, city officials said.
The 9 p.m. summertime curfew was put in place earlier this month downtown and in the University City neighborhood - home to the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. Mayor Michael Nutter's administration is extending it two weeks, until the regular school-year curfew takes effect.
His spokesman Mark McDonald said the curfew is sending "a very strong message."
"It's a success, a relative success," McDonald said on Monday. "We will pick up any child who violates the curfew. ... We are enforcing it. And going forward we are enforcing it."
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