the marshall projects, wrote last month that even when progressive prosecutors win voters support, establishment s work to curb their power from virginia to missouri to texas to georgia. conservatives have backed bills undermining the ability of elected prosecutors to carry out reforms that led reporters to support them in the first place. again, centrist democrats seem to be dancing to a republican tune, including in d.c., for most city council members are now on board with hiring more cops, a reversal from 2020 when they cut the size of the police force. with midterms around the corner they want to self-largely and blame themselves even on the cold, hard facts tell a different story. joining me now to discuss all of this is activist, author, and host of the pot to save the people podcast, derail mckesson. he is the we also have john fafsa, a law professor of fordham university and author of locked in.