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Nick Pinto
@nickpinto.bsky.social
Co-founder @hellgateny, Writing about cops, courts, jails, prisons and NYC. You may have known me on Twitter as @macfathom.
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The story of the heretofore mostly ignored *fourth* Banks brother, full of stranger-than-fiction twists, adds new layers to the overlapping bonds of family and loyalty in the Adams administration: hellgatenyc.com/fourth-banks...

The Strange, Forgotten Story of the Fourth Banks Brother
The Strange, Forgotten Story of the Fourth Banks Brother

The tale of Neron Banks adds new layers to the overlapping bonds of family and loyalty in the Adams administration.

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If you need to catch up on the many developments over the last week in the investigations, resignations, and conflagrations licking up the curtains of the administration of NYC Mayor Eric Adams, we once again have you covered with a @HellGateNY podcast: hellgatenyc.com/emergency-po...

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The video released yesterday evening of police shooting four people on the L train platform on Sunday makes it very hard to credit the NYPD position that neither policy nor the officers were at fault and this is the best or only way things could have gone down: hellgatenyc.com/nypd-body-ca...

NYPD Releases Body Cam Footage of Cops Shooting Four People on the Subway
NYPD Releases Body Cam Footage of Cops Shooting Four People on the Subway

The shooting left an innocent bystander severely injured, and the NYPD defending how it polices the transit system.

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"It suits their purposes that the records the CCRB has don't get to the public." A new suit alleges that police misconduct records—made public by law four years ago—are taking so long to be disclosed that it violates New York's Freedom of Information Law: hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-foil-de...

Police Misconduct Records Are Supposed to Be Public. Why Is The City Taking So Long to Turn Them Over?
Police Misconduct Records Are Supposed to Be Public. Why Is The City Taking So Long to Turn Them Over?

A new lawsuit over long delays in turning over NYPD misconduct records alleges the City is understaffing the office responsible for making them public.

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Nick Pinto
@nickpinto.bsky.social
Co-founder @hellgateny, Writing about cops, courts, jails, prisons and NYC. You may have known me on Twitter as @macfathom.
1.4k followers206 following107 posts