Samuels' argument for a special prosecutor hinged largely on the idea that the state's attorney's office has an innate conflict of interest when investigating police, due to the close working relationship between officers and prosecutors — an opinion that State's Attorney Kim Foxx herself espoused during her successful campaign for the office. But prosecutors have said that since taking office, Foxx has decided that the appointment of special prosecutors is unnecessary because of changes in how her office now handles police shootings.