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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.