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NYPD using aerial footage to police social distancing in parks

Th꧋e NYPD is pa𒉰trolling the city for proper social distancing on the ground — and from hundreds of feet in the air.

Polic𒁃e Commissioner Dermot Shea shared a video Thursday of some of the aerial footage over various locations in the city, including Carl Schurz Park, Inwood Hill Park and Juniper Valley Park.

“What we’ve seen so far … is nearly 100% compliance,” .

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NYPD uses drones to monitor social distancing
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The 🌃videos from Wednesday🐎, showing mainly empty parks, were met with mixed reactions on Twitter.

Some called for the NYPD to fly where residents weren’t practicing social distancing — while “dystopian af.”