INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department picked up dozens of kids this past weekend for violating curfew.

Police say 45 juveniles were taken to the Connection Center over the weekend, where staff worked to reunite them with their parents or guardians.

“The Connection Center played an important role this weekend, and I’m convinced that lives were saved because of this intervention,” said IMPD Chief Tanya Terry.

The Connection Center is a safe place for teens that’s an alternative to arrest.

IMPD says some of those taken were as young as 12-years-old. Two children were not picked up by par...