Patients wearing personal protective equipment stand on line while maintaining social distancing before entering a COVID-19 testing site at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New York. Gov. Police have stepped up efforts to pressure New Yorkers to practice social distancing at the epicenter of the crisis. It's part of a global challenge that law enforcement and health officials say is critical to containing the coronavirus.
The no-more mandate has forced the New York Police Department — a squad that normally prides itself on protecting packed crowds like the ones at the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration — into service dispersing small groups of people on city streets and public spaces. Enforcement also will include marked patrol cars driving through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and other popular outdoor escapes around the city, broadcasting recorded reminders about the importance of social distancing.
“If we see people in groups, we’re going to break them up,” he said. “If we see a place that’s too crowded, we are going to get people to disperse.” In New York City, officers patrolling recreation areas and enforcing social distancing this week were seeing “a lot of empty soccer fields and a lot of empty basketball courts, which is good,” NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said.
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Keep it up government and the people will revolt.
Better than France. If you go out without permission, you would be fined $30.
Of course. But they are exposed.
Around here they’re going a little overboard with their new orders. They’re acting like the Gustapo
In Baltimore you can only use the back door of buses and the driver area is chained off. But fair is free and people are out and about as usual, sitting on steps, riding bikes, jogging and everything.
Enforcing unconstitutional laws..
if there was a national lockdown the police could actually do police work!
I think they'll still (mostly) gather, whether in parks or elsewhere, but, whatever. It's something. Each step counts...
Yeah. Forced to ignore shoplifting, vagrancy and defecating on sidewalks for years, must be a bitch.
How are they protected from catching it? 🤔
Can you say police state
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