Well, folks, the situation in North Carolina continues to percolate.

It is a horrifying situation over this just dramatically evil stabbing of Rina Zarutka.

She, of course, is the Ukrainian refugee who's riding the light rail and was stabbed to death

by a 14-time offender named DeCarrlos Brown Jr.

who had a significant mental disorder,

violent schizophrenia. The reason that this continues to be in the news is not just because of all

of the issues that you would expect. The media's willingness to ignore the actual story because

after all, the races don't match up with their preferred racial narrative.

Not just because the footage is so horrifying.

But there's another aspect of it that has now, I think, grabbed public attention.

That is the horrifying tragedy of the fact that as this crime went down, nobody moved.

If you go all the way back to 1964, there's a very famous case from Queens called the Kitty Genevieve's case. In that case, allegedly, there was a woman who was and murdered in a relatively

crowded apartment complex. And supposedly, there were something like 38 people who heard what

was going on and none of them actually did anything. Now, as it turns out, there were some who sort of heard scuffling or her yelling, but didn't know what it was. There were some who tried to call the police, but there was no 911 system in place. That case was so horrifying to the nation because there was a full 30-minute period in which Kitty Genevese was being and then murdered, that the entire nation was shocked, and there's all sorts of work

that was done on how to make systems like the 911 system better, how to train people to

overcome what's known as the bystander effect. The bystander effect is where there are a lot

of people in a particular situation, something bad is happening, and everybody expects

someone else to do something and so nobody does anything.

It's a collective action problem.

Well, as it turns out, that collective action problem is not relegated to 1964.

And in a world in which people have become more and more disconnected from one another, you're going to see more and more suffering.

The tape that is now emerged of the actual slaying of Arena Zarutka is horrifying in the extreme.

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