COPS
Miami-Homestead, Florida 19
TV Flash files “Miami-Homestead, Florida 19” as hour 322 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 9, episode 12, aired 1996-11-30, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E12: listed hour 322 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 12 of 36 in season 9. It aired 1996-11-30 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Providence, Rhode Island 2” (S09E11). Next is “Miami-Homestead, Florida 20” (S09E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Alleged drug pushers are targeted in a sting; juveniles are stopped in a suspected stolen auto; a man is arrested for allegedly making threats against his ex-lover. Also: a report of a possible suicide is investigated.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Miami-Homestead, Florida 19 sit in the COPS guide?
S09E12 is listed hour 322 of 1267 — hour 12 of 36 in season 9, season 9 episode 12.
When did COPS S09E12 air?
Miami-Homestead, Florida 19 aired 1996-11-30 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is there a host or a script?
Ride-along vérité: handheld cameras, minimal narration, chaos scored to "Bad Boys." The format is the author.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Handheld ride-alongs set to a reggae hook: policing as weekly spectacle, no narrator required. The format that taught reality TV how to chase, cuff, and cut. Controversial by design — vérité as entertainment, neighborhoods as set, and a chorus that still follows every squad-car clip. View it as craft and as argument; it was always both.
Visual first: handheld grain, a reggae hook, neighborhoods framed as set, no narrator to soften the silhouette. John Langley and Malcolm Barbour's Fox series premiered in 1989 and became a syndication staple through the 1990s. *Ride-along vérité as weekly spectacle.* Inner Circle's *Bad Boys* is inseparable from the brand — the chorus that still follows every squad-car clip. **This was not a procedural costume; this was policing photographed as entertainment.**