How to Use vice squad in a Sentence

vice squad

noun
  • After a couple of years, she was transferred again, to the vice squad.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • At one time, she was referred to as a member of the department's vice squad.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The vice squad arrested Jenkins, booked him and released him.
    — Kai Bird, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • In Libya, Salafist Madkhalis used armed vice squads and alliances with warlords.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2018
  • To accomplish this, the vice squad got 25 new officers, doubling in size.
    — Emma Whitford, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Two days later, a vice squad shut the practice down, citing a city ordinance aimed at preventing prostitution.
    — Tyler Quattrin, Twin Cities, 19 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Within the parameters set by the vice squads, Tehran’s dominant culture was defiantly secular.
    — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The Phoenix Police Department still has a vice squad, which now focuses primarily on human trafficking issues.
    — Kyra Haas, azcentral, 28 June 2019
  • His first exhibition in 1963 reportedly caused a stir, with a vice squad identifying pornography in at least two of his paintings and confiscating them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • His first exhibition in 1963 reportedly caused a stir, with a vice squad identifying pornography in at least two of his paintings, and confiscating them.
    — ABC News, 1 May 2026
  • 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
  • The vice squad that had conducted raids was disbanded in 2015 so that more resources could go toward addressing violent crime, the Atlanta Police said.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Handorf had worked as a plainclothes investigator, a detective and in the vice squad before he was assigned to District 3, which covers the West Side of Cincinnati.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 7 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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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