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red squad noun a police unit that engages in systematic investigation and record-keeping about leftist political and social action organisations unrelated to criminal conduct US- The antisubversives unit of the Chicago Police Department–known popularly as the Red Squad–has become something of a legend on the shores of Lake Michigan. — J. Anthony Lukas, The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities, p. 55, 1970
- In Chicago and Los Angeles and other big cities in the 1960s, police departments had Red Squads that were notorious for spying on leftwing political activists. — The Progressive, 14 March 2002
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