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TV tourism: 132 and Bush, where are you?

by Justin Glow (RSS feed) on Nov 11th 2007 at 11:33AM

COPS is on all the time, it seems, and if you have cable with more than a few channels, chances are you can flip around and find an episode on any time of the day or night. In fact, just yesterday COPS aired it's 700th episode.

I've been watching the show for as long as I can remember, and I've always wondered something that has perplexed me until today. At the closing credits, directly after the last scene, a female cop chimes in over the radio and says, "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint." Simultaneously, one of the members of Jamaica's Inner Circle clears his throat and sings the iconic theme song, bad boys bad boys, what'cha gonna do?

Where is 132 and Bush? Of all the episodes I've seen over the years (699, no doubt), I've never seen the one where this audio clip was taken from. Does this place exist? Because if it does, as a true COPS fan, I have to go.

Turns out it does exist. It's in the east side of Portland, Oregon. [see map]

So for all you true COPS fans out there, your mecca has been revealed. Now we just need a few pictures from the location...can anyone help?

[Sources: 1, 2]

Filed under: Learning, North America, United States

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Cam Apr 21st 2008 7:18AM

I reckon its this address in Florida.
Given the first ever episode of COPS was filmed just north of Miami, and this is just south of Miami, it would make sense they sampled the radio from that region.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=132+and+bush&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.435463,58.710937&ie=UTF8&ll=25.574034,-80.40503&spn=0.009291,0.014334&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr

TinselTownCop Nov 23rd 2008 1:41PM

Actually, the location is in Lakewood, California, an area under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department. The correct statement of the female deputy was. "132 on Bush, I've got him at gunpoint".
The deputy was the first unit on scene, responding to a "prowler" call. She caught the suspect red handed. Her radio communication to the Sheriff Dispatch Center was "132 on Bush. This was the code to identify her station ("13" for Lakewood) and ('2" for her patrol beat). Dispatched acknowledged the deputies situation (O.K., 132 at gunpoint) and informed her that a back-unit was enroute to her with red lights and siren activated (cover is code 3).

Craig May 1st 2008 4:43PM

Nope, not in Florida...it's in Portland.

Lots of episodes were in the can by the time it aired, so they likely just took the Portland audio and decided to use it for the series.

Barbara Jun 4th 2008 11:40AM

Dear COPS Fans,

my name is Barbara Necek, I am a French journalist, working for TV in France.
I a looking for COPS fans in Los Angeles for a TV report we are doing. Is there anybody who could help me finding COPS fans in LA?

In advance, thank you for any contact or advice. Please write to me on my e-mail. b_necek@hotmail.com.

All the best,

Barbara

Jim Jan 4th 2008 5:15AM

I was almost on an early episode back in 1989, when I was pulled over by a Mill Creek, WA police officer who stopped me to tell me to replace my dearly departed headlight within three days. He was accompanied by someone with a very large "TV-reporter" size camera and explained that they were filming some kind of live action documentary. I tool my verbal warning and went on my merry way. I never did see myself on TV, but the first episodes of COPS that I actually watched were from Portland, OR and Tacoma/Pierce Co./S. King Co., WA. I do remember some of the early episodes being somewhat boring, just toodling around with police officers as they pull people over and write reports. I would later join the Coast Guard, serve 4-1/2 years, then return to civilian life to become an E911 operator for King County Police. I have since moved on to other things.

13200 SE Bush St (132 and Bush), Portland, OR is in a residential neighborhood just off of Powell.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=13200+Bush,+Portland,+OR&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=32.472848,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=45.496007,-122.527728&spn=0.003505,0.007296&t=h&z=17&om=1

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