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This advice is too generic to be used in every situation. If I see a van drive up, a man come out and throw a child in the back and speed off, I'm damn well goi

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  Perhaps more obviously, if you've been a victim of a crime—especially one you have reason to believe will likely be repeated or escalated without police involvement—while it might not be a bad idea to involve a lawyer in your law enforcement contacts if you have the means to do so immediately, there may be very good reason to report the crime to police without delay, even if that requires talking to them without an attorney. (And, yes, the basic risks of talking to police still apply. But there are, in this cases, risks of not doing so, as well.) OTOH, I think the advice is strongest in the case where the police are initiating contact, and you don't have a pre-existing and independent basis to think there is an interest in talking without delay that justifies the additional risk of doing so without an attorney.