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occurrence. Rather, it had been a loud, drawn-out, public event. As her
attacker chased her down and stabbed her three separate times in a 35minute period, thirty-eight neighbors watched from their apartment
windows and didn't even call the police!
Rosenthal promptly assigned a team to investigate this incidence of
"bystander apathy." Soon after, the New York Times came out with a
lengthy, front-page article detailing the incident and the alleged reactions
of the neighbors:
For more than half an hour, 38 respectabl