application of power and authority
begins to backfire. Searching the first
house in the Lower Falls made sense.
Ransacking the entire neighborhood only
made things worse. By the mid-1970s,
every Catholic household in Northern
Ireland had been searched, on average,
twice. In some neighborhoods, that
number reached ten times or more.
Between 1972 and 1977, one in four
Catholic men in Northern Ireland
between the ages of sixteen and forty-
four were arrested at least once. Even if
every one of those people had done
something illegal, that level of severity
cannot succeed.^10
This final lesson about the limits of
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