Red Squad
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For the fictional organization in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, see Homefront (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Paradise Lost (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Valiant (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine).
In the United States, Red Squads were police intelligence units that specialized in infiltrating, conducting counter-measures and gathering intelligence on political and social groups during the 20th century. Dating as far back as the Haymarket Riot in 1886, Red Squads became common in larger cities such as Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles during the First Red Scare of the 1920s. They were set up as specialized units of city police departments, as a weapon against labor unions, communists, anarchists, and other dissidents.