The British Army's Conduct on the Local Population Gets Worse

British army does not take kindly to all this mayhem on the streets they're supposed to bring order to. They don't like to see soldiers being ambushed and murdered in bars. So their attitude to the local population, already paranoid and prickly, gets even more hostile. The rules of engagement start to loosen. For example, any soldier seeing any person with a weapon or acting suspiciously, may, depending on the circumstances, fire to warn or with effect without waiting for orders from the military. Local mill workers were kicked in the genitals as they were searched twice daily as they went to and from their work place. A disco was interrupted by a foot patrol who attacked the ten age