{"id":10138,"date":"2020-08-26T15:44:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:44:42","slug":"mother-jones-quotes-professor-michael-j-lansing-in-article-on-police-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/26\/mother-jones-quotes-professor-michael-j-lansing-in-article-on-police-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Jones Quotes Professor Michael J. Lansing in Article on Police Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/08\/Mother-Jones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10137 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/08\/Mother-Jones-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mother Jones logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/08\/Mother-Jones-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/08\/Mother-Jones-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/08\/Mother-Jones.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After recently sharing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/24\/professor-michael-j-lansing-provides-media-with-historical-perspective-on-racial-injustice-in-minneapolis\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his historical expertise<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on racial injustice in Minneapolis with several news outlets, Professor Michael J. Lansing, chair of Â̲èÖ±²¥\u2019s Department of History, has been cited in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2020\/08\/police-unions-minneapolis\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Infuriating History of Why Police Unions Have So Much Power,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a story in the September\/October 2020 issue of Mother Jones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the article, Lansing shares historical information about the conflict between Minneapolis Mayor Arthur Naftalin and the Police Officers\u2019 Federation of Minneapolis in 1967. The story ends on a note of hope that in the future police unions will no longer hamper the push for police reforms. In Lansing\u2019s words: \u201cAnything that can be created can be uncreated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After recently sharing his historical expertise on racial injustice in Minneapolis with several news outlets, Professor Michael J. Lansing, chair of Â̲èÖ±²¥\u2019s Department of History, has been cited in \u201cThe Infuriating History of Why Police Unions Have So Much Power,\u201d a story in the September\/October 2020 issue of Mother Jones.\u00a0 In the article, Lansing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10139,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions\/10139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}