vice squad
Enforces sin laws
A vice squad is a police unit that investigates crimes related to gambling, prostitution, drugs, and other illegal activities traditionally categorized as moral offenses.
The term reflects an older view of law enforcement as regulating public morality: The vice squad raided the underground casino.
Also called vice unit.
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- red-light districtZone of sex commerce
- entrapmentDefense against induced criminality
- panderingAppealing to lowest impulses
- bustFailure or sculpture
human trafficking · brothel · undercover operations · plain clothes · moral offenses · sex trade · public decency · escort services · streetwalking · street corner · ladies of the night · exploitation · narc · arrest · crack down on · decoy · solicitation · sting operation
- Criminal Investigationdetective, crime scene, crime investigation, forensics, investigator
- policeofficer, cop, officers, patrol, cops
- police workpatrol, arrests, arrest, stings, investigation
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- crimefighterscops, detectives, FBI, police, sheriffs
- law enforcementFBI, police station, patrolmen, police officer, cop
vice squadhomicide detectives
Officers solving killings
homicide unit · fraud squad · arson investigation · cold case unit · traffic enforcement
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