About 14 months ago, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to investigate the role of Russian interference in the 2016 election. On a daily basis, conservatives moan and groan about how long the investigation is taking and publicly demand that he wraps it up.

Never mind the fact that the investigation has yielded dozens of felony indictments, guilty pleas, and cooperating witnesses. Never mind the fact that President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser and campaign manager have been swept up in this probe. Never mind the fact that it has unearthed evidence of a conspiracy to undermine the 2016 presidential election to tilt it Trump’s favor.

What I’m saying is this: Whether you like it or not, Mueller’s investigation is both methodical and productive. They’re not just spinning their wheels. I get the feeling that his entire team is actually working day and night to uncover and prosecute wrongdoing.

And this clearly irritates conservatives. In a poll earlier this year, nearly 80 percent of Republicans said that the investigation should end soon, and another poll found that around 30 percent of voters said that the investigation is unfair.

As an activist and organizer for families who’ve been affected by police brutality, this sudden frustration with long, meandering investigations from conservatives surprises me. Over four years ago, on the morning of July 17, 2014, New York Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo choked Eric Garner to death on a Staten Island sidewalk. The public medical examiner determined that Garner’s death was by asphyxiation. It was in broad daylight for dozens of witnesses to see. It was caught on film from start to finish. The chokehold was banned by the NYPD years before this incident ever took place. And yet, here we are, in month 48 of the “investigation” into Garner’s death. It’s been almost 1,500 days.

And I have to put quotation marks around “investigation,” because, unlike the Mueller probe, you’d struggle to find a single credible person in the country that actually believes that the city, state, or federal government has actually been investigating the Garner case for 48 months. Want to talk about “fake news”? That’s fake news.