This week on CounterSpin: Elite media can give the impression that problems wax and wane along with their attention to them. Communities, on the other hand, are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities, and we hear about it from Monifa Bandele from the Movement for Black Lives. Add that to amped-up efforts to impede voting, even in this imperfect system, and people get discouraged—they don’t vote at all, and problems are compounded. We get at that with Svante Myrick, president of People For the American Way, as well as former mayor of Ithaca, New York.