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WorldlyGlass49

I believe that felons is the word that would best retain the meaning of the passage is substituted for rogues. 
Citizens is too weak a word, heroes means the opposite of rogue, scoundrel seems to literary to me, so I would choose - felons.

Answer:

Scoundrels

Explanation:

a scoundrel is a dishonest person and so is a rouge.

they are basically synonyms.