. >>> a cerf curfew has been put in place for young people, trying to protect them from crime. >> there'shat 5% of society that create the problems, we've got a city two and a half miles square. >> and it's a high density living. >> we had eight shootings, one fatal at fatality. that was a 15-year-old boy. >> a high amount of gunfire has been reported. >> it's intervention and prevention. >> we're not looking to take any other children to take, not looking to take the youth to jail. we're seeing if there's any services we can possibly offer them and see if youth court can help them. >> the detained youth will be taken to city hall, not jail, unless a series crime has been committed. >> they'll sit down with a counselor to tomorrow if they need help, then be released to a guardian. >> we're not saying the youth is a problem. >> we are saying we don't want the youth to be exposed to any violence that's going on. >> police say the curfew already enforced on a nightly basis, but a that extra patrols could be on the streets for the foreseeable future or until the shootings stop. kron four news