{"id":9248,"date":"2011-09-15T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T23:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:16:06","slug":"132-and-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/132-and-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"132 and Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve said it before and it bears repeating: I’m both high-brow and low-brow simultaneously with little in the middle. I admit that I’ve watched more than my share of COPS episodes since it first aired in 1989. It’s one of my guilty pleasures. I can’t be the only one who keeps a laptop close at hand so I can find locations featured on the show in Google Maps and then pop them into Street View. Inquiring minds want to know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s why it’s odd that I never questioned 132 and Bush before. This has to be the most famous, or at least the most repeated address in the history of reality television. This address has been mentioned at the end of every COPS episode starting with Season 2. It’s been broadcasted innumerable times over more than twenty years of original episodes plus nonstop reruns on a dozen local and cable channels simultaneously, not to mention DVD’s, streaming video and other transmissions. Repetitions of 132 and Bush have to be in the millions by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose it’s possible that there might be a couple of people on the planet who don’t know what I’m talking about, so an explanation is in order. The closing credits of COPS include a police radio transmission between an officer and a dispatcher: “132 and Bush, I’ve got him at gunpoint. Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush, cover is code three.” Actually there’s some debate about that. Some say alternately it’s “coverage” or “covers” but most seem to believe its the first option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portland, Oregon?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n