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In praise of - getting involved.

THE recent case of two teenagers arrested after they reported seeing a five-year-old girl asleep in a stolen car, gives ammunition to those who say citizens should never get involved in fighting evil.

I'm torn myself. Quickly, the hero trying to do the right thing will find that, just as lawyers — particularly defence lawyers — are the enemies of justice, so the police are clueless about crime.

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