pull = "police raid; mass arrest"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED lacks this sense:
 
1889  Daily Inter-Ocean (Chicago) (Apr. 15) 2: A large crowd of people congregated to see the “pull,” and as the prisoners entered the wagon [etc.].
 
The verb used to be very common, equivalent to current "bust."
 
JL




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