{"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 Augsburg University\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 Augsburg University\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}]}}