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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Emmanuel Camarillo

FOP boss files complaint about city housing migrants at police stations

Migrants have been housed at the Chicago Police Department’s Central District, 1718 S. State St., for months. The Salvation Army moved most of them to a shelter on Monday, April 3, 2023. (Emmanuel Camarillo/Sun-Times)

The leader of Chicago’s largest police union said he filed a formal complaint Monday about the city housing migrants at police stations, a practice he warned is “inhumane” and sends an “eff you to cops.”

John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he lodged the complaint with the Chicago Police Department’s labor relations division. He said he was told the city’s Department of Family and Support Service would “address the situation.”

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