WASHINGTON (7News) — Ever since President Trump’s takeover, DC leaders from the mayor on down have been pushing back against claims of “out of control” crime, pointing to numbers on its website as proof.
It’s full of green arrows showing crimes are dropping significantly.
But a lawsuit, just settled out of court, claims the numbers may not always be what they appear.
Even in light of this claim, Mayor Bowser recently told MSNBC:
“We have spent over the last two years driving down violent crime in the city, driving it down, to a thirty-year low,” Bowser boasted to MSNBC. “Over the past year, thank you for showing, we have decreased violent crime by 26 percent, the year before that, by 35 percent.”
Though, according to a one-time Sergeant turned whistleblower, the numbers weren’t always to be trusted in the past.
In this lawsuit from 2020, Sergeant Charlotte Djossou claimed that MPD routinely misclassified crimes, and that “districts compete against each other to get the largest reduction in the crime statistics.”
That possibly paved the way to promotions and raises.
She claimed higher-ups in the department told officers to do so, creating “a long history of trying to distort crime statistics”; “...including downgrading felonies to misdemeanors”.
Djossou gave one striking example of a domestic violence case where a woman had a deep cut from her forehead to her chinthe officer on scene called it “assault with a dangerous weapon,” but the captain allegedly changed it to “sick...
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