A group of West Side activists gathered outside the offices of the city’s police oversight agency on Wednesday to criticize its nascent investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct involving Chicago police officers and at least one immigrant housed at a police station.
On July 6, a Chicago Police Department spokesperson said the department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs was jointly investigating the allegations alongside the Civilian Office of Police Accountability without providing details. The following day, COPA announced that its probe involved officers assigned to the Odgen District just hours before immigrants were moved from the station.
