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It's bystander syndrome, according to Drew Carberry, a director with the National Crime Prevention Council in Arlington, VA; the Genovese Effect.
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The governing bodies can make a difference," says Owens. "But it's those bystanders who can also make the difference and report people.
It's the innocent bystander who gets shot.
The Food and Drug Administration could have forced Merck to do the appropriate research studies, but instead it was a bystander.
Foot's example had the trolley driver making the choice, but Thomson modified the case so that it was a bystander, not the driver, who had to make the choice.
It was a bystander, the report said, who finally called the fire department to report the accident.
This report raised an intriguing question whether Sarcinae can cause disease in humans or whether it is a bystander with the stomach as their natural habitat.
Rather, it's that we bystanders — caught up as we are in this psychosocial climate of fear and anxiety — will lose the objectivity to even want to understand the nuances of any single event.
If there is anything we ought to have learned from the Holocaust, it is not to be bystanders.
It is probably more accurate, and more honest, to say that Scotland has drifted from the centre of the sporting universe, that the real action is elsewhere and that, like it or not, we are bystanders.
The team knows why it is there; bystanders are left to guess.
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