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Failure to report a crime is a crime. For everybody.

That's not true. In the US the offence still exists, but:

This offense, however, requires active concealment of a known felony rather than merely failing to report it.[1]

In most other English speaking jurisdictions the crime itself has been abolished.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_felony



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