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Nick Pinto

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Senior Writer — The Village Voice
Business and Finance, Crime and Justice, Metro New York, Politics
As seen in: The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Vice, Gothamist and 1 more
Covers:  criminal justice, police, civil liberties, surveillance, radical politics, labor, new york city

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NYPD Watchdog Shatters Bratton's 'Broken Windows' - Now What?

NYPD Watchdog Shatters Bratton's 'Broken Windows' - Now What?

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

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Under Media Spotlight, City Locates Missing Records of NYPD Political Meddling

Under Media Spotlight, City Locates Missing Records of NYPD Political Meddling

Under media pressure, New York City miraculously discovered more than 520 boxes of records of unconstitutio...

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What Does Peter Liang's Conviction Mean for the NYPD and Police Accountability?

What Does Peter Liang's Conviction Mean for the NYPD and Police Accountability?

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

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Why Can't We End Mass Incarceration?

Why Can't We End Mass Incarceration?

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

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The Bail Trap

The Bail Trap

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

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When Cops Break Bad: Inside a Police Force Gone Wild

When Cops Break Bad: Inside a Police Force Gone Wild

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

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The Point of Order

The Point of Order

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

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NYC Cops Are Blithely Firing A Potentially Deafening Sound Cannon At Peaceful Protesters

NYC Cops Are Blithely Firing A Potentially Deafening Sound Cannon At Peaceful Protesters

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

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Thousands Rally On Staten Island For Muddled Anti-Police Brutality March

Thousands Rally On Staten Island For Muddled Anti-Police Brutality March

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

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It Slowly Dawns On NYPD Oversight Head That His Agency Is Powerless

It Slowly Dawns On NYPD Oversight Head That His Agency Is Powerless

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

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Remember The Young Lords? Neither Does The NYPD, Which Is Odd...

Remember The Young Lords? Neither Does The NYPD, Which Is Odd...

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

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After Chokehold Uproar, NYPD Oversight Group Wants Fewer Investigations

After Chokehold Uproar, NYPD Oversight Group Wants Fewer Investigations

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

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Why Did Police Arrest This Man In Front of His Kids at Eric Garner's Funeral? | VICE | United Sta...

Why Did Police Arrest This Man In Front of His Kids at Eric Garner's Funeral? | VICE | United Sta...

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

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After a Police Dog Bit His Leg, This Protester Was Jailed Thanks to a Cop's Testilying

After a Police Dog Bit His Leg, This Protester Was Jailed Thanks to a Cop's Testilying

Video evidence showed that the sworn police accounts intended to justify Zachary Kamel's arrest weren’t tru...

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A Massive Rockaway Gas Pipeline Is Being Built Right Under Our Beaches

A Massive Rockaway Gas Pipeline Is Being Built Right Under Our Beaches

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

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City Agrees To Largest Occupy Wall Street Settlement Ever

City Agrees To Largest Occupy Wall Street Settlement Ever

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

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Occupy Wall Street Trial Begins in Manhattan

Occupy Wall Street Trial Begins in Manhattan

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

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The dark spots that Superstorm Sandy left behind

The dark spots that Superstorm Sandy left behind

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

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"Shady," Ubiquitous, & Willing To Get Arrested

"Shady," Ubiquitous, & Willing To Get Arrested

After an undercover police officer was arrested Tuesday for his involvement in the highly publicized motorc...

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City Lawyers: Trust Us, NYPD Surveillance Is Keeping You Alive

City Lawyers: Trust Us, NYPD Surveillance Is Keeping You Alive

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

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OWS: Studies of the movement

OWS: Studies of the movement

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

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NYPD Cracks Down On Elderly Veterans

NYPD Cracks Down On Elderly Veterans

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

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Uncapturing the Friedmans

Uncapturing the Friedmans

Jesse Friedman Spent 13 Years in Prison as a Notorious Child Rapist -- He May Soon Get an Apology

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Everybody Wants a Piece of Kimani Gray

Everybody Wants a Piece of Kimani Gray

How a boy's death became street theater in Flatbush.

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Planet NYU

Planet NYU

How the school's global ambitions triggered a revolt from within.

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Pipe Bomb

Pipe Bomb

Will a New High-Pressure Gas Line Help New Yorkers—Or Blow Them Up?

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The Rat Czar Plots His Ascent

The Rat Czar Plots His Ascent

After less than a year, Joe Lhota bails on the MTA, jumps for the gravy train

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Lead Us Not Astray, Reverend James Cooper

Lead Us Not Astray, Reverend James Cooper

In August 2011, Trinity Church's rector was asked to leave. He stayed with a vengeance.

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Hurricane Sandy Is New York's Katrina

Hurricane Sandy Is New York's Katrina

Floods, fear, and FEMA failures.

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Making Bail Better

Making Bail Better

A new law opens the door to a more just criminal justice

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Occupy Wall Street, Year Two

Occupy Wall Street, Year Two

Approaching its anniversary, the movement isn't dead. It's growing up.

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The NYPD's Poor Judgment With the Mentally Ill

The NYPD's Poor Judgment With the Mentally Ill

Shereese Francis was in mental distress. After police arrived, she was dead.

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Can Occupy Wall Street Trust Its Own Candidate?

Can Occupy Wall Street Trust Its Own Candidate?

Running for Congress, George Martinez calls himself the Occupiers' candidate. The rest of the movement isn'...

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Bail is Busted: How Jail Really Works

Bail is Busted: How Jail Really Works

Thousands of New Yorkers are stuck behind bars because they're too broke to get out.

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Occupy Spring

Occupy Spring

The protests are back and building to a May Day to remember.

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Rise of the Facebook-Killers

Rise of the Facebook-Killers

At the pinnacle of the social network's success, its critics are busy building its replacements.

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Air Safety on the Cheap

Air Safety on the Cheap

They're responsible for airport security but contractors still make poverty wages.

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NYU Students: Debt and Debtor

NYU Students: Debt and Debtor

NYU is number one in student debt. But is it really worth it?

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The Shomrim: Gotham's Crusaders

The Shomrim: Gotham's Crusaders

They patrol Jewish neighborhoods with taxpayer money—but don't always clue in the police.

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Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media.

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LARP Vampires Walk Among Us

LARP Vampires Walk Among Us

Cosplay on a graduate level.

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Undercover Mother: Who Was Karen Sullivan?

Undercover Mother: Who Was Karen Sullivan?

Government agent was not really a peace activist.

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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans in Trouble with the Law

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans in Trouble with the Law

Experts see more soldiers facing criminal time.

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K2 and the Synthetic Marijuana Boom

K2 and the Synthetic Marijuana Boom

Head shops see high profit margin.

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Do DWI Laws Work?

Do DWI Laws Work?

One in seven Minnesotans has a drunk driving conviction. Are we any safer?

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University of Minnesota Professor's Research Hijacked

University of Minnesota Professor's Research Hijacked

Dr. Gary Remafedi says ACP knew better.

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Get Motivated Speakers Want to Inspire You and Take Your Money

Get Motivated Speakers Want to Inspire You and Take Your Money

The Lowes enlist celebrities—like Brett Favre—at a hefty price.

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Bill Lewinski Defends Cops Accused of Excessive Force

Bill Lewinski Defends Cops Accused of Excessive Force

Minnesota State University-Mankato professor serves as expert witness in police shootings.

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Natural-Birth Center at Bellevue Hospital, Haven for Poor Women, Closes

Natural-Birth Center at Bellevue Hospital, Haven for Poor Women, Closes

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9/11 Cleaning Workers Battle Illness

9/11 Cleaning Workers Battle Illness

While recovery workers took on the monumental cleanup of the World Trade Center site, Lucelly Gil and thous...

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