The era of progressive prosecutors is a failed experiment. Neighborhoods fell apart, crime soared, businesses fled, and residents were unsafe. Angry voters are responding by electing pragmatic prosecutors — attorneys who vow to get tough on crime and restore law and order.

In its Pragmatic Prosecutors series, the Washington Examiner spoke to four of the men and women who say they are bringing change for the better to their jurisdictions: Baltimore County State’s Attorney Ivan Bates; Albany, New York’s newest district attorney, Lee Kindlon; Alameda County’s newest district attorney, Judge Ursula Jones Dickson; and Nathan Vasquez, the district attorney for Multnomah County, which encompasses Portland, Oregon.