Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Kathy
I believe there is a term for this "bystander apathy." When there are a
number of witnesses there is a diffusion of responsibility--each figuring
someone else will call the police and interfere, so why should they. Very
similar to the Kitty Genovese affair.
jackief
Kathy E wrote:
> Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> This story is appalling to me, to think people were so indifferent to
> what they were watching, to not even to bother to pick up a phone and
> dial 911? Pathetic. I hope they can look themselves in the mirror
> without shame, I know I wouldn't be able to.
>
> People watched from the safety of their high-rise apartments before dawn
> Sunday as four men beat a taxi driver to death and dumped his body in
> the trunk of the cab, investigators said.
>
> "Eye witnesses saw him being beaten and dragged by his feet and thrown
> in the trunk, but no one called 911," said Detective Virginia Lopez.
> "It's disgusting."
>
> The apartment manager said the unidentified victim may have been
> killed over a parking space.
>
> Police were summoned to the area when the victim's friend called police
> from a nearby convenience store and said the two were being robbed and
> beaten by four men. Officers then searched near the apartments for the
> driver while neighbors watched from their windows, Lopez said.
>
> "They didn't tell police the body was in the trunk," Lopez said. Only
> when police went door-to-door did residents start talking -- nearly an
> hour later, Lopez said. The man might have lived if police had found
> him earlier, she said.
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