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Metropolitan Police Department

The Metropolitan Police Department has been Washington’s city police force since 1861, when Congress established it to maintain order in a capital suddenly flooded with soldiers and refugees. These posts explore the MPD’s history, from its Civil War origins and the colorful officers who defined its early years to the crime waves and reforms that shaped modern policing in DC.

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this is a gunA Metropolitan Policeman Arrested for Armed Robbery in Washington D.C. in 1972Updated Aug 15, 20131938 policeman from New MexicoA Wild Story We Dug Up From The Washington Post: A Storybook Arrest On June 5th, 1938Updated Jun 27, 2013Officer Sprinkle: Biography of the DC Policeman in Our LogoUpdated Apr 22, 2013At the White House gates. "M.A. Rainey, October 5, 1922." National Photo Company Collection glass negative.Three Wild Police Chases in 1920s and 1940s Washington, D.C.Updated Feb 12, 2013Circa 1902. "The Waldorf-Astoria, New York." The original, and somewhat forbidding, Waldorf at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. (Shorpy)Officer Sprinkle at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York CityUpdated Jan 23, 2013Officers Wallace, Trundle and Johnson (Washington Post)Private Paul J. McDuff: Rescued from the Ninth-Floor Ledge of the Willard Hotel in 1949Updated Dec 7, 2012Clayton Morgan, Jr.The Bizarre Incident Where a Man Took a Streetcar for an Illegal Joyride on Pennsylvania Ave.Updated Nov 29, 2012Capitol Hill Haunts - Tim KreppThe Mysterious Ghost of the Capitol Hill Police SubstationUpdated Oct 31, 2012Representative Francis Shoemaker Arrested for Assaulting Taxi Driver in 1934Updated Oct 12, 2012
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