Use of "Code 3"
Although the exact origin of Code 3 is not clearly known, its use has spread across the United States and into parts of Canada.
Code 3 was the title to a 1950s television police procedural intended to compete with Dragnet.
The Greaseman used the term in one of his songs, "I Love To Go Code 3".
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“Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)