Question: I want to follow up on these City workers who will be enforcing social distancing. If you could just talk a little bit about which City workers they will be? Are they going to be civilians? And how are you going to ensure that they're doing this properly? There are people who have concerns about how social distancing is being enforced.
Mayor: I'll just go over the agencies again. In addition to NYPD we're talking about Parks Department, Office of Special Enforcement, Sanitation Department, Fire Department, Environmental Protection, and the Sheriff's Office. All of these are City agencies that have enforcement powers, that have the ability to give out violations. And we're talking about over a thousand employees from those agencies who already have that power being applied to enforcing social distancing. We've done a lot of education over the last weeks. We're going to be really clear with people, immediately move, do not in any way shape or form hesitate. If you are not doing something right, you got to stop immediately, otherwise there will be enforcement. And there will be violations given, period. So, these workers are going to play a crucial role in that effort, augmenting all of the efforts of the NYPD. And then we're going to be doing more and more to help people in the process, like giving out the free face coverings. So I think it's just constant education, making it easier with the face coverings, but then a whole lot of enforcement. And showing that, you know, at this point, it's time for people to be really clear. We have got to stick to social distancing if we want to get through this. Folks who don't practice social distancing are prolonging this crisis and we certainly will not allow that.
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