vice squad
Example Sentences
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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
Saudi Arabia defanged its once-feared religious vice squad and now allows men and women to mix in public.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022
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.
From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 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
