The precedent was already set in 1964.
Two words: Kitty Genovese.
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Wrong!
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You couldn’t pay me enough to live in that rat infested dump. A woman I worked with from NY told me her day wasn’t complete unless she splashed somebody with her taxi. They have a predator mindset.
I used to believe the story that 38 people ignored her cries, but it was the stupid New York Times (& other media later) who spread the lie that no one cared or did anything.
https://www.thecut.com/2016/04/how-the-false-story-of-kitty-genovese-s-murder-went-viral.html