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 by...
Notable People & Places, The Best Of / 04.03.2014
Metro Policeman Arrests President Grant for Speeding
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 riding his horse too fast in the city. This is amusing on...
On the chance that something related to our favorite police officer had been added to the Library of Congress archives, we ran a quick search this weekend, and sure enough ...
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 Museum's blog. Brothers J.L. and J.F. Sprinkle wearing their...
From GoDCers / 07.11.2013
Obituary for Officer Sprinkle’s Son, Raymond
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 one in....
Really? This is a crazy headline from the Washington Post, published on March 1st, 1972. The city was a little rough around the edges then, but a policeman performing...
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, yesterday made a story-book arrest. Clinging in the running-board of a commandeered automobile,...
Here is a terrific photograph from the Library of Congress, showing a traffic policeman at 14th and Pennsylvania, making use of a rearview mirror. The photo was taken some time in the 1920s. ...
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 possession, the...
Faces & Places of Yesterday / 17.04.2013
Can You Spot Officer Sprinkle? Metropolitan Police Department in 1904
I can't find him in this photograph. Can you? ...
![Photograph shows a group of motorcycle policemen, from left to right: "Sergt. J.E. Boyle, L.F. Reilly, W.D. Vaughn, F.S. Tyser, L.D. Redman, D.E. Gailmore, G.P. Waite, R.H. Mansfield, G.M. Little, A. Shockey, W.C. Lewis, [and] Capt. J.A. Abbott" with view of the U.S. Capitol in the background.](https://s3.amazonaws.com/ghostsofdc/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/27154917/00154u.jpg)
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 sidecar.) The photo was taken on April 26th, 1922. ...
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 rare occurrence. So, out of the thousands of chases mentioned in the newspaper...
Our favorite officer and the patron saint of Ghosts of DC, Officer Sprinkle, took a trip up to New York City with a group of 21 contest winners from The Washington Post. Twenty-one winners in the...
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 was grabbed from a ninth-floor ledge of the Willard Hotel yesterday by...