Libya And The ‘Bystander Effect’

March 11, 2011

Exactly 47 years ago this weekend, a young woman named Kitty Genovese screamed for help as she was attacked outside her Queens, N.Y., apartment building. The New York Times reported two weeks later that 38 neighbors heard her cries but did nothing until it was too late. That story was probably wrong in its details — investigators later determined that an initial stabbing pierced the woman’s lungs, leaving her unable …

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