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...

This is one of the more interesting personal stories that we've uncovered. For a while now, we've heard stories about President Grant being arrested for...

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 the edges...

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...