Shawn Saldano, President, COLA
"How would that deter crime? How will the curfew deter crime? Tanya Stephens says this explicitly in her song, "providing no job and tell us not to cry is like beating a child and telling them not to cry." We are building so many roads, so many bridges but we are not building an opportunity for our people to be engaged and positively endorsed. These are the reasons why we have so much crime and violence. This is nothing happening overnight. It's nothing happening overnight."