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On the Vice Beat
Boston — “It’s not that we’re against anyone having a good time,”says one of Boston’s vice squad patrolmen, “but prostitutes bring the mug boys, the addicts, the robberies, the serious assaults.”Bruce McCabe is a thirty-one-year-old reporter for the Boston Herald Traveler. The names he uses are not the real ones.