WASHINGTON — D.C.'s police department is deciding how it will respond to a congressional request to produce documents and provide officer interviews for a House oversight investigation into alleged crime underreporting within the Metropolitan Police Department.
The investigation targets information related to a 2020 case first brought to light by WUSA9's investigative team, centered around allegations made by MPD Sergeant Charlotte Djossou.
Days before her name appeared in a letter from the House Oversight Committee announcing the congressional investigation, Djossou took to Instagram after receiving calls from reporters seeking her story.
"I can't talk to them until I retire," she said in an Instagram video. "I'm still a sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Department."
But Djossou did speak exclusively to WUSA9 in 2020 as a 15-year MPD veteran previously honored for her service. She went public with stunning allegations about crime underreporting by her supervisors, producing internal documents from two cases.
In the first case, a man allegedly slashed a woman in her face and neck with an unknown object, sending her to the hospital. Instead of classifying it as "assault with a dangerous weapon" — a felony charge carrying up to 10 years in prison — investigators classified the alleged crime as "simple assault," a misdemeanor with a maximum six-month jail sentence.
In another case,...
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