Editorial: Housing migrants in Chicago police stations was a disaster waiting to happen
Chicago’s police stations fulfill multiple functions in their districts: They’re workplaces for officers and administrators, holding pens for criminal suspects, offices for detectives trying to solve crimes and locations where this teeming city’s citizens go to report their myriad worries and problems.
They never were designed to be shelters for migrants.
So it’s hardly surprising that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s decision to continue to direct Chicago’s migrants to, in essence, take up residence alongside sergeants’ desks has not been going well.
Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police
