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In both contests, police abolition — and law enforcement spending overall — has emerged as a political fault line, particularly for voters worried about crime and disorder.

The Central Park Five case consumed New York City for years, exposing deep fault lines around race, crime, and inequality in the criminal justice system.

Yet the showdown would also emphasize certain fault lines in the Recording Academy and in the music business at large involving race, genre and authenticity — and not for the first time.

Vicente and his girls have trouble speaking directly to the fault lines that have built up over the years between them.

But dig a bit deeper and the fault lines of America’s political upheaval can be found here too.