Bystander Effect – people watch girl being abducted

When there’s only one person around in a situation, they’re much more likely to lend assistance to people in need, whether it’s to help pick up something they’re dropped or something more important like warn them they’re about to step into traffic, etc. When there’s a group of people, though, no one acts. They all …

MI – Cops Charged After Being Caught On Tape In Botched Pot Raid (March, 2011)

Police engage in routine criminal behavior as they are caught discussing justifying the theft of personal property due to the discovery of a quarter ounce of marijuana during a heavy handed drug raid. The raid was justified based on an anonymous tip and the discovery of a single marijuana stem in the garbage of the …

Police Brutality: Cop points gun in girls face for being rear ended by his son. Philly July 09

Police Brutality: WHEN AGNES LAWLESS and three friends were inside a Lukoil convenience store in the Northeast at 3 am last August, they’d all but forgotten the fender-bender in which they’d been involved moments earlier. There was little damage, and the other driver had left the scene, near Northeast Philadelphia Airport. What they didn’t know …