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Yep - not to mention that the Downtown Silver Spring outdoor mall area, with was just 2-3 blocks away from the park these kids were picked up in, has been the site of epic gang battles in the recent past -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/concerns-about-silver-spring-spur-consideration-of-curfew/2011/07/26/gIQAXiYobI_story.html.  I think a lot of the people supporting these parents don't quite have a sense of the geography and situation here. We're not talking about some quiet suburban neighborhood filled with kids and SAHMs. It's a major, traffic-filled urban center full of strangers.

And I say this as one who also had one of those 70s/80s free range childhoods and benefitted from it, and am sad that my kid won't get the same thing.  But hanging out in a park in the late afternoon as a 6 and 10 year old in Downtown Silver Spring is a FAR cry from my free range childhood, which took place in practically car-free cul de sac with dozens of kids out at any one time, and neighborhood parents who knew all of us.  [/quote]

Epic gang battles on a lovely weekend afternoon? Really?

I'm also impressed by the assumption that Downtown Silver Spring is practically Manhattan. Not to mention that kids actually do routinely walk around the real actual Manhattan without getting taken into custody by CPS.[/quote]

JaJaJaJa

You actually compared SS to Manhattan. [/quote]

Downtown Silver Spring is probably actually less safe than some areas of Manhattan. [/quote]

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