New Years Curfew?

Is this going to be a failure - how big?

• Resolving to avoid another violent holiday-season “teen takeover,” Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday stressed the city’s 10 p.m. curfew for young people who head downtown without adult supervision for the city’s nationally televised New Year’s Eve festivities.

  The mayor and police Supt. Larry Snelling implored parents to “know where your children are” to help the city avoid a repeat of the chaos that followed hundreds of teenagers who flocked to the Loop after last month’s Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. Nine teens were shot, one fatally, when large gatherings devolved into violence Nov. 21.

  Johnson and Snelling promised a heightened police presence for the “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” spectacle that’ll take over the Riverwalk Wednesday night.

  But keeping the peace will largely come down to family communication, Johnson said during a press conference at the West Loop headquarters of the Office of Emergency Management & Communications.

With all the cancelled days off, does anyone think Larritorious and Heineken are going to have Officers checking IDs for curfew violators? Or being off the streets for citations? Of course not.

Questions though:

• will the "stop stick unit" be deployed for the inevitable car caravans? 
• how about a response team when the usual suspects start shooting off fireworks downtown?
• and will ABC be broadcasting on a ten-second-delay to attempt to filter out the sound of gunfire?

We put the odds of gunfire being heard on live TV at about 50-50.