Civilian Complaint Review Board
recommended the harshest disciplinary action possible for what Thinkprogress called a“chronic history of abuse,” the N.Y.P.D.
gave Pantaleo the weakest disciplinary action it could.
Since then,
writers like Judd Legum(who quit his job as editor in chief of Thinkprogress to launch his newsletter Popular Information),
Toast founders Nicole Cliffe and Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Slate political correspondent Jamelle Bouie have also used Substack to create paid newsletters(though again, it's not all behind a paywall- the platform allows them to publish a mix of free and paid content).