California (and only California) penal code for murder, made popular in west coast gangsta rap.

(a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, or a
fetus, with malice aforethought.
(b) This section shall not apply to any person who commits an act
that results in the death of a fetus if any of the following apply:
(1) The act complied with the Therapeutic Abortion Act, Article 2
(commencing with Section 123400) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division
106 of the Health and Safety Code.
(2) The act was committed by a holder of a physician's and surgeon'
s certificate, as defined in the Business and Professions Code, in a
case where, to a medical certainty, the result of childbirth would be
death of the mother of the fetus or where her death from childbirth,
although not medically certain, would be substantially certain or
more likely than not.
(3) The act was solicited, aided, abetted, or consented to by the
mother of the fetus.
(c) Subdivision (b) shall not be construed to prohibit the
prosecution of any person under any other provision of law.

code used by law informent to identify (murder death kill)
code used by others on pagers to signify appreciation/concern

used in law enforcement for a killing/murder

187 cop code in detriot and california for murder/death/kill

but it got picked up by the public

ganstas like to use the term 187 to threatern people

California Police Dispatch for Homicide.

CALIFORNIA penal code for Murder, so that means that 187 is not the murder penal code on the East Coast!!!

1)murder, a killin, police code for both.
2)a remix of Deep Cover, by Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre

police code for death/murder