this is the latest right wing talking point from the guy who killed the guy on the subway by choking him to death restraining him. Right wingers are claiming that NY citizens no longer help because they don't want to get arrested and charged like Daniel Penny did, the Daniel Penny effect. The recent case where the woman was set on fire, and stabbings the next day are 2 examples of this says FOX news.
NEvermind that in the ACTUAL Daniel Penny case, his OWN DEFENSE TEAM, used the known effect where acts that occur in front of large groups of people, often go unreported and nobody helps because "everyone assumes someone else will do it, Daniel Penny was a hero because he didn't assume someone else would do it."
So in the very case they're citing part of the defense was usually when this happens, nobody steps in to help, he did. And now they're arguing that the reason nobody is helping, is because of the Penny case?
It's like blaming mass shootings on video games. Oh wait nevermind