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NYPD prepares for 'mass arrests' during Labor Day weekend due to wild partying...

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With temperatures in New York expected to be around 80 degrees all weekend, and with bright sunshine forecast, the NYPD are bracing themselves for large gatherings - which they will break up.

Extra officers have been drafted to police stations in Brooklyn hotspots in anticipation of an increased demand for processing detainees, a source told the New York Post

'If there's violence, we're going to make arrests,' said Terence Monahan, chief of department for the NYPD. 

'Obviously, if there's groups out there, we're going to try to break it up. 

'We're not looking to arrest people. They're out to celebrate. 

'But we can't have the violence.'

The city is also suffering from a surge in violence, with gunfights frequently breaking out at large cookouts in Brooklyn and the Bronx. 

Since June 1, there's been 708 shootings with 899 victims as compared to 277 shootings with 338 victims during the same period last year, said Monahan.

'These house parties are so large it's almost impossible for us not to see them,' he said. 

'They're very large, speakers blaring. We will be out in force and we will have enough cops to go in these parties and break them up.'

Monahan said he expects Brooklyn residents to celebrate. 

'But we're asking that they celebrate small, celebrate with their families, celebrate on their block,' he said, warning people from other parts of the city not to travel across the boroughs.


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