The Chicago Office of Civilian Office Police Accountability (COPA) has launched an investigation of 10 district police officers who may have allegedly sexually abused a migrant woman living temporarily in the police station.

Sexual misconduct investigators may involve criminal actions and require cooperation with CPD and require the cooperation of the CPD (Chicago Police Department) and, ultimately, the Cook County State Attorney’s Office. Also, COPA immediately notified the CPD’s Bureau of Internal Affairs of these allegations. 

Following reports that police officers sexually abused migrants, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is moving roughly 40 asylum-seekers out of a West Side police station after allegations surfaced that some Chicago Police officers committed sexual misconduct against at least one migrant woman temporarily housed there.

The Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No. 7 President John J. Catanzara Jr. said the allegations were “nonsense.”

“There is no validity to the complaint. there is no basis or origin on where it originated from,” Catanzara said in a video statement Friday. “We don’t have a victim’s name or anything — or victims, repeatedly or multiple — at this point. Who knows if it’s even true.”

“While COPA investigators are currently determining whether the facts and details of the allegation are substantiated, we will assure the public that all allegations of this are the highest priority, and COPA will move swiftly to address any conduct of those involved,” Ephraim Eddy, first deputy chief of COPA.

People who have gone to COPA write about how the office has not been and it is not very helpful.