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New Yorkers enjoying cold beers and nutcrackers this summer were smacked with $25 fines in the city’s latest crackdown on low-level crimes: public drinking.

Police issued close to 7,000 tickets in June alone — up from the 4,000 or so in the same month last year. It’s the most tickets police have issued in a single month since at least 2019, according to a Gothamist analysis of data from the city’s office of Administrative of Trials and Hearings.

WNYC's Morning Edition spoke with reporters Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky and Bahar Ostadan about the findings and what they show about policing in New York City.