Most of you probably walk right by those old police boxes scattered throughout the city. Some of them have been turned into miniature art exhibits — like the ones in Mt. Pleasant. Check out the video above of Sgt. Nicholas Breul of DCPD gives a brief talk on the history of these police call boxes.
Surely Officer Sprinkle was intimately familiar with these call boxes.
![Police call box at 13 1/2 and D St. NW in 1912 (Wikipedia)](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/05/police_call_box_wash_dc_1912.jpg)
![Historic police call box. Sheridan Kalorama Call Box Restoration Project. Located on Massachusetts Ave. near intersection with 22nd St., NW](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/05/callbox-kalorama.jpg)