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Bukele, who has championed law enforcement’s dragnets and the construction of more prisons, has taken full credit for the reduced homicide rate, though it had begun to drop even before he took office in 2019.

Ukraine has taken steps to root out corruption, and a dragnet over the past two years has seen Ukraine’s defense minister, top prosecutor, intelligence chief and other senior officials lose their jobs.

A statewide dragnet for organizers from the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, ensued, followed by hundreds of arrests.

The dragnet has also ensnared hundreds of P.T.I. supporters who have been detained.

Louis Lépine’s international dragnet—the trains stopped in Belgium, the Kaiser Wilhelm II searched in New York—had been for nothing.