You know our country is in troubleā€¦

But to the original post, as I think has been noted before, the bystander effect has been studied before... the most famous story being the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, where 38 bystanders did nothing as she was murdered.

It's really weird, but sometimes the more people around the less likely it is that someone will act, the tendency is to assume someone else will surely do it, and the longer no on does something the harder it becomes to actually do something.