How to Use vice squad in a Sentence
vice squad
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Well enough to trade in her undercover work in the vice squad for scuba gear and a 50-pound vest.
—CBS News, 2 July 2018
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In Libya, Salafist Madkhalis used armed vice squads and alliances with warlords.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2018
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To accomplish this, the vice squad got 25 new officers, doubling in size.
—Emma Whitford, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
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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.
—Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2018
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Although press releases and much of the media coverage of the series has stated Adelstein was embedded in Tokyo vice squad to root out corruption, he was never embedded and hasn't claimed to be.
—Gavin J. Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2020
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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.
—Emma Whitford, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
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The Phoenix Police Department still has a vice squad, which now focuses primarily on human trafficking issues.
—Kyra Haas, azcentral, 28 June 2019
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The officers worked in units based in Queens and Brooklyn, including a vice squad investigating prostitution in South Brooklyn, an official said.
—Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
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Within the parameters set by the vice squads, Tehran’s dominant culture was defiantly secular.
—The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
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Problems with the unit included accusations that Andrew Mitchell, a former vice squad officer, fatally shot a woman in August 2018 who was sitting in his unmarked police vehicle in what Mitchell says was an act of self-defense.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
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