A DC Police Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes To Make Stats Look Low

The City Just Quietly Settled Her Lawsuit.

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The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district’s crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed.

Former MPD sergeant Charlotte Djossou sued the department in 2020, alleging that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme. Djossou, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq, accused MPD brass of attempting to “distort crime statistics” by “downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors, so that there will be ‘fewer’ felonies in the statistics.” She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep them out of the crime stats the city reports to the public. more

6 Comments on A DC Police Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes To Make Stats Look Low

  1. Just for the heck of it, I did a DuckDuckGo search of her name. Of the roughly 40 responses that came up, only #12 was from a “mainstream media” source (MSN). All the other hits were “right wing” or local sources. Probably some major league pearl clutching going on in MSM newsrooms around the country.

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  2. by a show of hands who is surprised they fudge the stats….looks around the room….not one hand in the air as this has been standard operating procedure for Police Dept across our nation. dates back to when I remember the NYPD doing it when I got hired in the early 9o’s

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