The New York Times' Narrative of a Bat Calling the Police

This was not the only murder in New York City where a bystander could have done something and didn't. I can't blame someone for like thinking about going to get as bat and then not doing it. People don't trust the police very much in 1960s in New York, not even white people. And also there's probably a sucky person in many of those murders or some significant portion of them.