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Kitty Genovese and “Bystander Apathy”

You're Wrong About

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The New York Times's Article on the Stalking of a Woman

38 people watched Kitty Genovese be murdered. This inspires some important research into bystander apathy. The fact that nobody says it was 330 seems like the most important detail of this. So there's at least one, two, three, four, five errors in this one sentence. Most of them, if not everyone, but Joseph Fink didn't know it was a stabbing.

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