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
They were taken into custody along with two detectives, Giovanny Rojas-Acosta, 40, who was assigned to the Central Investigations Division, and Rene Samaniego, 43, who worked in the vice squad in southern Brooklyn.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2018
The vice squad is responsible for Bowers’ impressive memory.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2018
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
