{"id":11001,"date":"2022-09-13T16:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2023-08-08T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:00:49","slug":"ground-zero-for-police-reform-professor-michael-lansing-on-minneapolis-police-chief-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/13\/ground-zero-for-police-reform-professor-michael-lansing-on-minneapolis-police-chief-search\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ground Zero for Police Reform&#8221;: Professor Michael Lansing on Minneapolis Police Chief Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/09\/Michael_Lansing-300x263.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/09\/Michael_Lansing-300x263.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/09\/Michael_Lansing.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Local media have turned to Augsburg professor Michael Lansing for historical context as the city of Minneapolis prepares to hire a new police chief.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cGiven the recent events, the murder of George Floyd as well as the uprising here in Minneapolis, there\u2019s no question that the selection of a police chief is intensely important,\u201d Lansing told reporter Jay Koll on <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/three-finalists-selected-by-search-committee-for-minneapolis-police-chief\/\"><span class=\"s2\">KSTP\u2019s Nightcast<\/span><\/a> last week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The three finalists for Minneapolis police chief all come from outside of Minnesota\u2014a rarity in recent decades. \u201cNot only is it unusual, it\u2019s noteworthy because that only tends to happen when the city has been through some kind of intense experience around policing and public safety and police-community relations,\u201d said Lansing, who is writing a book on the history of policing in Minneapolis. He is also the co-founder, with Dr. Yohuru Williams at the University of St. Thomas, of the \u201cOverpoliced and Underprotected in MSP\u201d project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHistory never repeats itself, but sometimes it rhymes,\u201d Lansing told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpt.org\/almanac\/video\/an-historians-look-at-the-mpls-police-chief-job-opening-39672\/\"><span class=\"s2\">TPT\u2019s Almanac<\/span><\/a>. \u201cThis is one of those examples when we\u2019re hearing some rhyming: the call for outsiders, the desperate pleas for help to change the culture that you find across the city, in communities of color, in advocacy organizations, on city council, and in the mayor\u2019s office. And yet what\u2019s different is that you have a rearrangement of the actual administrative structure,\u201d with the city&#8217;s newly-appointed Commissioner of Public Safety in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI think this is ground zero for police reform in the United States.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Read more from Michael Lansing: \u201c<span class=\"s4\">Policing Politics: Labor, Race, and the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, 1945\u20131972<\/span>\u201d (Minnesota History magazine, 2021)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local media have turned to Augsburg professor Michael Lansing for historical context as the city of Minneapolis prepares to hire a new police chief.\u00a0 \u201cGiven the recent events, the murder of George Floyd as well as the uprising here in Minneapolis, there\u2019s no question that the selection of a police chief is intensely important,\u201d Lansing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11001","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\/11001","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11329,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}