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Nick Pinto

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As seen in: Hell Gate, The Intercept, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera English, Rolling Stone, VICE, Curbed, Gothamist, The Nation, The Village Voice and
Covers:  criminal justice, police, civil liberties, surveillance, radical politics, labor, new york city
Co-founder @HellGateNY. Also @NYTMag @VillageVoice @TheIntercept @NewRepublic @CJR @RollingStone @WSJ @Gothamist @Vice. On the other site as nickpinto@
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The Incredibles: Judges Said These Cops Can't Be Trusted, So Why Does the D.A. Rely on Them?

The Incredibles: Judges Said These Cops Can't Be Trusted, So Why Does the D.A. Rely on Them?

The Village Voice — Public defenders have found evidence that suggests people in East Flatbush are getting locked up on the basis of lies and fabrications, and no one — not the NYPD, not the Brooklyn district attorney — was doing anything about it.
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Google Is Transforming NYC's Payphones Into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine'

Google Is Transforming NYC's Payphones Into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine'

The Village Voice — Google's Trojan-horse Wi-Fi kiosks scare even the people who built them. Who invited them in, again?
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NYPD Watchdog Shatters Bratton's 'Broken Windows' - Now What?

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

The Village Voice — When sixteen-year-old Rhamar Perkins escaped police officers who were trying to arrest him for jumping a subway turnstile in Brownsville last week, the NYPD scrambled an all-night manhunt, complete with helicopters. The mobilization was eventually called off when Perkins turned himself in to the precinct four and a half hours later, but the incident - an all-out effort to catch a boy who skipped out on a $2.75 fare - makes for a pretty tidy illustration of what policing in New York City looks like in 2016.
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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

The Village Voice — Under media pressure, New York City miraculously discovered more than 520 boxes of records of unconstitutional NYPD political surveillance it previously had maintained were mysteriously missing.
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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?

The Village Voice — On Thursday night, after the rest of the Brooklyn Supreme Court had gone home for the day, and with a hundred hungry reporters pacing out in the hallway, the jury in the trial of 27-year-old New York police officer Peter Liang sent a note to Judge Danny Chun: After three days of deliberation, they had reached a verdict. Liang was guilty of second-degree manslaughter and official misconduct in the killing of 28-year-old Akai Gurley last winter. He had just become the first NYPD officer in over a decade to be convicted in a fatal shooting.
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Why Can't We End Mass Incarceration?

Why Can't We End Mass Incarceration?

Rolling Stone — Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that Draconian mandatory-minimum sentences have to go — so why is it so hard to pass a bill that will actually make a difference?
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The Bail Trap

The Bail Trap

New York Times Magazine — Every year, thousands of innocent people are sent to jail only because they can’t afford to post bail, putting them at risk of losing their jobs, custody of their children — even their lives.
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When Cops Break Bad: Inside a Police Force Gone Wild

When Cops Break Bad: Inside a Police Force Gone Wild

Rolling Stone — 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

New York Times Magazine — Order is a subjective thing, and the people who define it are not often the people who experience its imposition.
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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

Gothamist — New York City police officers have lately taken to blasting protesters with 21st-century sound cannons, and as far as anyone can tell, the department doesn't have any policies governing when and how they get to do so.
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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

Gothamist — The Ferguson episode put America's deeply ingrained patterns of racist police violence front and center in the popular consciousness in a way that Garner's death had not, and yesterday's rally on Staten Island only underscored the differences between how New York and Ferguson have responded to their calamities.
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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

Gothamist — In his second public meeting yesterday as chairman of the body tasked with investigating police misconduct, Richard Emery spoke frankly about how deeply flawed the Civilian Complaint Review Board really is. "It's the very regrettable Vietnam metaphor," Emery said. "You have to destroy the town in order to save it. Which is terrible, you know, but it's like: Maybe we should be starting from the ground up."
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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...

Gothamist — This is a story of the NYPD spying on activists, students, and families, and the department's uniform resistance to open government laws. We're not talking about the blanket surveillance of Muslim and Arab Americans, nor the infiltration of Occupy Wall Street with undercover officers, the most infamous of which became a star player in last year's melee on the West-Side Highway. This story goes much further back, to the 1960s, with the rise of a radical Puerto Rican nationalist group known as the Young Lords.
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After Chokehold Uproar, NYPD Oversight Group Wants Fewer Investigations

After Chokehold Uproar, NYPD Oversight Group Wants Fewer Investigations

Gothamist — With New York in an uproar over the death of Eric Garner after police put him in a chokehold, the new chairman of the group that handles public grievances about the NYPD floated the idea yesterday that his agency should stop listening to people who complain about police stops.
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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...

Vice — "Why choose the funeral service—the service that they caused—to inflame tensions? The timing just makes you wonder: Is this to make a statement?”
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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

Vice — Video evidence showed that the sworn police accounts intended to justify Zachary Kamel's arrest weren’t true, making him only the most recent in a long list of New York defendants who have found themselves in jeopardy because of dubious testimony provided by cops.
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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

Gothamist — What better way to celebrate the partial recovery from a climate-change-fueled Superstorm than by laying a high-pressure fracked-gas transmission pipeline right under the beach?
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City Agrees To Largest Occupy Wall Street Settlement Ever

City Agrees To Largest Occupy Wall Street Settlement Ever

Gothamist — Today, lawyers announced the largest settlement with New York City yet, with the city paying out $583,024 to 14 protesters who were arrested for disorderly conduct on January 1st of 2012.
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Occupy Wall Street Trial Begins in Manhattan

Occupy Wall Street Trial Begins in Manhattan

Wall Street Journal — A Manhattan jury heard opening arguments on Friday in one of the final criminal cases stemming from past Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. Cecily McMillan, a 25-year-old graduate student and union employee, was charged with second-degree assault on a police officer.
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The dark spots that Superstorm Sandy left behind

The dark spots that Superstorm Sandy left behind

america.aljazeera.com — Mold-related respiratory problems continue as tens of thousands of homes remain untreated a year after the storm
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"Shady," Ubiquitous, & Willing To Get Arrested

"Shady," Ubiquitous, & Willing To Get Arrested

Gothamist — After an undercover police officer was arrested Tuesday for his involvement in the highly publicized motorcycle-gang attack on an SUV driver, police sources told NBC he had also spied on Occupy Wall Street as a member of the NYPD Intelligence Division.
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City Lawyers: Trust Us, NYPD Surveillance Is Keeping You Alive

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

gothamist.com — 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

america.aljazeera.com — 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

gothamist.com — A New York City judge ruled that police were correct in arresting elderly veterans over their insistence on reading aloud the names of the war dead at New York's Vietnam Memorial after 10pm.
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