Stu Bykofsky: Nutter did well to move quickly against mayhem
mobs  Youth mobs cause mayhem along South Street in March 2010.
Recent flurries of similar violence led the city to get tougher
on curfew. Youth mobs cause mayhem along South Street in March
2010. Recent flurries of similar violence led the city to get
tougher on curfew. (LAURENCE KESTERSON / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Posted: August 18, 2011  PHILADELPHIA'S enhanced and enforced
curfew is having the desired result. When police presence goes
up, crime goes down.  Stunning insight, right?  The question is
how long the cops - on foot, in cars, on bikes, on horseback -
will remain in Center City and University City. And what happens
when they're gone?  I don't know. Cool weather may cool heads.
Returning to class may have a civilizing effect, but when we
have metal-detectors at school entrances, I doubt it.  Curfew
enforcement is a Band-Aid, but Band-Aids stop the bleeding from
a wound, and Philadelphia was wounded. The mayor's first aid was
appropriately fir