vice squad

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In a 2019 mini-documentary, Cordova claimed that the 5 Star had been targeted by the Los Angeles Police Department’s vice squad for hosting punk rock bands and bringing in the accompanying crowd.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

He was met instead by police who arrested him and threw him into a cell belonging to the vice squad.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2023

The vice squad arrested Jenkins, booked him and released him.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2022

In 1952, she was jailed when a box-office worker at a theater where she was performing failed to recognize two vice squad officers who were in the habit of attending the shows for free.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2022

And I knew how to keep moving about so as not to attract the attention of any vice squad plainclothes- men or uniformed cops.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey