Definition of vice squad
: a police squad charged with enforcement of laws concerning gambling, pornography, prostitution, and the illegal use of liquor and narcotics
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In Libya, Salafist Madkhalis used armed vice squads and alliances with warlords.
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To accomplish this, the vice squad got 25 new officers, doubling in size.
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But the continuous arrests of trans women highlight one major shortcoming of a plan that empowers the vice squad, advocates for trans rights argue.
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Twenty years on the force, including undercover in the vice squad, busting massage parlors—a story that never fails to get a smile.
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Hustling bucks and ducking the Third Division boys, those earnest young plainclothesmen assigned to the vice squad who work out of the 17th Precinct on the East Side.
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First Known Use of vice squad
1905
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