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The speech is made, the Jews can wait. It's a line about the President sending the US Army onto the streets of Detroit to Quell riots in 1967, and it comes from a folk song called Black Day in July.

Radio stations in 30 states banned it.

The immediate Jews that summer were 43 dead.

But as Coleman Young, Detroit's first African American mayor, would later ride,

the heaviest casualty was the city.

President Trump is once again deploying federal forces in American cities, pushing law and order up the political agenda.

The pendulum is swinging. Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics went in 1967. Is it swinging now? With a hundred and

one days to go, this is checks and balance.

I'm John Prado, the economists, US editor, and this is a podcast about the 2020 elections.

Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth.

Today, might this be a law and order election? The death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer led to calls to defund the police nationwide.

Two months later, efforts to reform policing in the city approving Rancorous, while some

blame the protest movement for a spike in shootings and murders.

President Trump has praised the work of unidentified armed officers dispersing protests in Portland.

He's pledged to surge federal law enforcement in Chicago and beyond.

In this episode we'll hear from Minneapolis where this all started and find out how previous

elections have flipped on crime.

With me as ever to talk about all of this are Charlotte Howard, the economist's New York Bureau Chief, and John Fasman, the Washington correspondent.

John, how are you doing? I can see on our video conference that you're in a car

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