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Nick Pinto

Nick Pinto served two tours as staff writer at the Village Voice. His reporting has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Gothamist, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Intercept, and elsewhere.

​​The NYPD Sent a Warrantless Subpoena for a Copwatcher’s Social Media Account, but Won’t Defend It in Court

What does the NYPD want with the social media data from a police accountability account?

March 11, 2024

NYPD Chief Is Running an Online Swag Shop to ‘Fund Office Supplies Such as Water, Coffee, Snacks’

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell calls his shop a 501(c)3 organization. It's registered as a non-charitable corporation.

March 5, 2024

Can Top NYPD Officials Pick a Fight with Someone on Social Media and Then Delete the Posts?

What happens when public officials memory-hole their tweets?

February 23, 2024

Bounced from Shelter to Shelter, a Family of Asylum Seekers Struggles to Stay New Yorkers

An interview with a family that never imagined themselves in New York City, and now have nowhere else to go.

February 16, 2024

New York’s Prison Labor System: ‘You Got the Slaves, and You Got the Masters’

Testifying to state lawmakers, former incarcerated workers for the state’s Corcraft program described a regime of exploitation.

February 13, 2024

Police Union’s Last-Ditch Effort to Scuttle NYPD Reforms Fails In Court

The NYPD has now entered into an agreement to change how it polices protests.

February 9, 2024

Adams Fought the Lawmakers and the Lawmakers Won

City Council voted Tuesday to override the Mayor’s veto of bills on police transparency and humane jail conditions

January 31, 2024

Police Union’s Surprise Weapon in Its Legal Battle to Block Protest Policing Reform? The Mayor

The Police Benevolent Association pushback against the 2020 George Floyd protests settlement has its day in court.

January 30, 2024

NYC’s Biggest Police Union Has Made a Huge Mess of the 2020 Protest Settlement

A court hearing Monday will help determine whether the Police Benevolent Association can play spoiler to reforms the NYPD has already agreed to.

January 26, 2024