vice squad

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.

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

Saudi Arabia defanged its once-feared religious vice squad and now allows men and women to mix in public.

According to Ms. Rowland, the theater manager was filling in at the box office that night and failed to recognize a pair of vice squad officers, refusing to let them in free.

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.