Nick Pinto

Public defenders have found evidence that suggests people in East Flatbush are getting locked up on the basis…

Google's Trojan-horse Wi-Fi kiosks scare even the people who built them. Who invited them in, again?

When sixteen-year-old Rhamar Perkins escaped police officers who were trying to arrest him for jumping a subw…

Under media pressure, New York City miraculously discovered more than 520 boxes of records of unconstitutiona…

On Thursday night, after the rest of the Brooklyn Supreme Court had gone home for the day, and with a hundred…

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that Draconian mandatory-minimum sentences have to go — so why is …

Every year, thousands of innocent people are sent to jail only because they can’t afford to post bail, puttin…

Over the past five years, police in Albuquerque have shot and killed 28 people and brutalized many others

Order is a subjective thing, and the people who define it are not often the people who experience its imposit…

New York City police officers have lately taken to blasting protesters with 21st-century sound cannons, and a…

The Ferguson episode put America's deeply ingrained patterns of racist police violence front and center in th…

In his second public meeting yesterday as chairman of the body tasked with investigating police misconduct, R…

This is a story of the NYPD spying on activists, students, and families, and the department's uniform resista…

With New York in an uproar over the death of Eric Garner after police put him in a chokehold, the new chairma…

"Why choose the funeral service—the service that they caused—to inflame tensions? The timing just makes you w…

Video evidence showed that the sworn police accounts intended to justify Zachary Kamel's arrest weren’t true,…

What better way to celebrate the partial recovery from a climate-change-fueled Superstorm than by laying a hi…

Today, lawyers announced the largest settlement with New York City yet, with the city paying out $583,024 to …

A Manhattan jury heard opening arguments on Friday in one of the final criminal cases stemming from past Occ…

Mold-related respiratory problems continue as tens of thousands of homes remain untreated a year after the st…

After an undercover police officer was arrested Tuesday for his involvement in the highly publicized motorcyc…

The NYPD's policy of widespread spying on Muslims went on trial yesterday in a federal courtroom in Manhattan.

Three new books on Occupy Wall Street look at the movement's legacy.

A New York City judge ruled that police were correct in arresting elderly veterans over their insistence on r…