Donald Trump's fourth criminal indictment.

Number four appears to be days away.

NBC News is now reporting that Fulton County District Attorney Fawnee

Fawnee Willis is expected to present her case to the grand

jury next week. Now we know that DA willis has been investigating Trump's

efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia and her investigation appears to have

quite a bit in common with the federal case being brought by special counsel

Jack Smith in Washington DC. But the case in Georgia may prove to be different from Jack Smith's case in

one very meaningful way and to understand that we need to go back to 1979 when the city of Atlanta was experiencing an

unprecedented wave of crime. Here was NBC Nightly News in August of that year.

During the first six months of this year, crime in Atlanta was up 30 percent.

Robbery and aggravated assault were up 70 percent.

And murder was up too to Atlanta has had 140 homicides the highest

total since 1973. So that was the way the national media was talking about the city of Atlanta as the decade

closed out in 1979.

Here was the headline in the New York Times that very same month.

Atlanta fearing for national reputation

mount's urgent fight on crime.

That same year the Georgia governor sent state troopers to Atlanta

after a Wall Street journal story suggested that the city's crime wave might undermine attempts to draw business to the state.

And so state lawmakers started passing tough and often very harsh new policies to try and crack down on crime.

The next year in 1980, Georgia lawmakers decided that one of the ways they could deal with

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