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   From: basherman@outlook.com   
      
   New York City’s rat population just got a lot bigger.   
      
   Calls and texts about social-distancing violations skyrocketed   
   following Mayor Bill de Blasio’s appeal on Saturday for New   
   Yorkers to help stem the spread of the coronavirus by snitching   
   on illegal gatherings, data show.   
      
   Before the announcement, the number of daily complaints about   
   improper social distancing ranged from a low of 262 to a high of   
   963.   
      
   But on Sunday — the day after de Blasio rolled out his New   
   Squeal initiative — the figure surged to 1,305, which comprised   
   more than 25 percent of 311’s total 5,123 calls for the day,   
   data show.   
      
   The only day that 311 got more overall complaints during the   
   period, which began March 29, was on April 14, when there were   
   5,191, but only about 17 percent involved social distancing.   
      
   All told, the city has fielded 15,199 social-distancing   
   complaints between March 29 and April 19, according to city data.   
      
   The location with the most social-distancing complaints was   
   Manhattan’s Central Park, with 59 — 30 of which came just during   
   the week ending Sunday.   
      
      
   The second-largest number that week — 21 — involved the Chabad-   
   Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.   
      
   A Chabad spokesman said the complaints were coming from within   
   its Hasidic Jewish community, where many people “are deeply   
   frustrated and even angry with this tiny group of violators who   
   are disobeying the law and the unequivocal warnings by the   
   rabbinic and medical communities,” as well as “explicit signage”   
   that says the building is closed.   
      
   The Wise Towers, a public housing complex in Manhattan that   
   covers most of the block bordered by West 90th and 91st streets   
   and Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, had 18 complaints, the third   
   highest in the city.   
      
   The numbers do not include crank complaints that flooded 311 in   
   response to the video de Blasio posted online Saturday, when he   
   urged New Yorkers, “Snap a photo of an offending person or   
   crowd, set the location on the image, and text it.”   
      
   “Action will ensue,” Hizzoner added.   
      
   Cops have made 19 arrests, issued 143 summonses and handed out   
   221 fines in connection with alleged violations of social   
   distancing rules from March 17 through Monday, according to the   
   NYPD.   
      
   Meanwhile, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams on Monday called for   
   the city to release information about the racial makeup of those   
   arrested and issued summonses in connection with coronavirus-   
   related mandates — as well the ZIP codes where the incidents   
   allegedly took place.   
      
   In a statement, Williams said he was seeking the information due   
   to “concerns that enforcement has disproportionately impacted   
   historically over-policed communities of more color, and as   
   these same communities face disparate impact from the COVID-19   
   crisis.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/04/21/social-distancing-complaints-surge-   
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