WHYY's It's Our City has a pretty interesting video on the fate of Philly's Curfew Centers:

Fate of Philadelphia curfew centers uncertain from whyyphila on Vimeo.

The video shows Donald Schwartz, the Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity, discussing the Curfew Centers at a Philly Stat meeting. Basically, the punchline is that while the curfew centers are supposed to take kids off the street as an anti-violence program, the time in which youth violence generally occurs is right after school, not after 10.30PM on weeknights, and midnight on the weekends... And, while the City has made 4,000 referrals of kids to social services, they have only confirmed that 41 have actually been connected to those services.

Of course, if 4,000 referrals for social services were made, that means that the curfew centers are finding at-risk kids, correct? So, maybe the issue should be why so few kids (that we know of) actually got connected to the services they need.