Tag: Metropolitan Police Department

Where were the police and fire stations located in Washington back in 1880? Check out this great old map. Source: Library of Congress This was done...

Ulysses Grant was arrested for directing by William West, an African-American metropolitan policeman. This is a great historical story.

On the chance that something related to our favorite police officer had been added to the Library of Congress archives, we ran a quick...

Thanks to the tweet below, we came across an amazing photo of Officer Sprinkle and his brother. https://twitter.com/darsal/statuses/401064931165888512 The photo came from the National Law Enforcement...

Here is the obituary for Raymond B. Sprinkle, the son of our favorite policeman, Officer Sprinkle. Thanks to long-time GoDCer John for sending this...

Really? This is a crazy headline from the Washington Post, published on March 1st, 1972. The city was a little rough around...

This is a wild story we dug up in the Washington Post. It was published on June 5th, 1938. Private Ernest Cullenber, of Park Police,...

Here is a terrific photograph from the Library of Congress, showing a traffic policeman at 14th and Pennsylvania, making use of a rearview mirror....

You all have been waiting a long, long time for this. So have we. Thanks to one of our GoDC fans, we have in our...

I can't find him in this photograph. Can you?

This is an awesome photograph of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department in 1922, on their motorcycles. (I'd hate to be the guy riding in the...

If you lived in D.C. in the 1980s, seeing a police chase screaming down K St., or any other major thoroughfare, was not a...

Our favorite officer and the patron saint of Ghosts of DC, Officer Sprinkle, took a trip up to New York City with a group...

Here's a crazy story for you from the 1940s. This was published in the Washington Post on June 4th, 1949. A young Air Force private...

Our neighborhoods don't have quite the colorful names of yesteryear. Much like Murder Bay, Hell's Bottom was a seriously dangerous place to...

What an awesome headline ... we have to share this one with GoDCers. On October 28th, 1957, the Washington Post reported on a bizarre incident,...

This is the first guest post by GoDCer Tim. Given that we have "ghosts" in our name and with today being Halloween, it's appropriate...

This is another example of how you don't want to see your name in the papers. This is an article from the Baltimore Sun,...

A huge gambling bust happened on January 31st, 1925. The location was a crowded restaurant on E St. where people would gather for illegal...

Do you like your beer, wine or liquor? The Sheppard Bone-Dry Act of 1917 would have put a major damper on your libations when...

Prohibition was a rowdy time in D.C., much like the rest of the country. The police had to deal with bootleggers constantly in the...