The city is going to start enforcing laws requiring demonstrators to acquire permits. Bloomberg gets tough on 'Occupy'

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that Occupy Wall Street protesters should expect a crackdown on their camp in lower Manhattan, the New York Post reported.

Bloomberg — who described the demonstrators as mostly peaceful and said they “generally” obey the law — warned that the city is going to start enforcing laws requiring demonstrators to acquire permits for marches and large gatherings.


“We will start enforcing that more,” Bloomberg told listeners, according to the NY Post.

Bloomberg did not further elaborate on what type of enforcement will come into play or when the process will begin. He said, however, that the takeover of Zuccotti Park will have to be resolved eventually in order to restore the space to everyone and not just those supporting Occupy Wall Street.

“We’ll eventually have to work something out here,” Bloomberg said.

Occupy Wall Street protesters have been using Zuccotti Park as their unofficial headquarters since the movement first began a month ago. Several hundred people attended a New York community board meeting on Thursday night to complain about the protesters.