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.
NYC Department of Investigation Confirms What Everyone Already Knew: Cops Aren’t Doing Anything About Parking Permit Abuse
When City investigators reported parking permit violations, police enforced the rules zero percent of the time.
The NYPD Is Posting by the Seat of Its Pants
As the department gets increasingly pugnacious on social media, its policies governing official posts remain inexplicably secret.
New Subway Security Theater Just Dropped: Controversial AI Weapons Scanner
The mayor convened his top leadership to announce the future testing of a weapons screening system that may or may not work as advertised.
Eric Adams: Defund the Police Oversight
The Civilian Complaint Review Board's budget has been so decimated that it has already stopped investigating whole categories of police misconduct.
Adams Administration Backpedals on Huge Cuts to Pre-K and 3-K Programs
"We're gonna resolve that issue," Schools Chancellor David Banks told the City Council.
Pro-Palestine Activists Block NY Times Delivery Trucks: ‘We’re Trying to Take the Times Out of Circulation for a Day’
By 12:30 a.m., big semi trucks began to back up in the facility’s driveway, unable to get in.
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?
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.
‘People’s Lives Are At Stake’: City Council Asks NYPD What It’s Doing to Prevent Wrongful Convictions
Top cops testified before Harlem Councilmember Yusef Salaam, who spent seven years in prison on a wrongful conviction.
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?









