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Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara has officially retired from the Chicago Police Department. He will continue as head of the police union and says he wants to run for mayor in 2023.
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John Catanzara is the head of the Fraternal Order of Police. This is not the first time that he has been in trouble with the agency.
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The Chicago Police Department canceled regularly scheduled days off starting Friday and through the weekend. An internal memo sent to rank and file officers does not mention the Rittenhouse trial.
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The judge left intact the requirement that Chicago Police Department officers report their vaccine status and the city’s current policy requiring multiple weekly tests for unvaccinated officers. But his order does stay the Dec. 31 deadline for all officers to be vaccinated.
Read More →The Police Benevolent Association, New York City's largest police union, had argued in their request for a temporary restraining order on Monday that the policy does not make clear potential exceptions for medical or religious reasons, and does not give unvaccinated officers sufficient time to apply for such exemptions.
Read More →A court hearing over the union's request for a temporary restraining order was delayed Wednesday, but that did little to ease tensions over the city's attempt to get all police officers vaccinated.
Read More →According to city data, there was a total of 12,258 sworn personnel as of June 2021, down from 13,218 two years ago.
Read More →Most of the officers were assigned to CPD headquarters in Bronzeville, according to John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, the union that represents rank-and-file officers.
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FOP head John Catanzara said that “it’s safe to say the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50 percent or less” over the weekend.
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Investigators from the FBI descended on the office as part of an investigation into the union, which is headed union president Ed Mullins.
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