“Law enforcement projects an air of omniscience. If residents hear a gunshot and don’t see an officer coming to the scene, they don’t think it’s because we don’t know about it. They assume we know about it, and that we’re not there because we don’t care.” With the new technology, officers appeared on the scene of shootings we simply didn’t know about before.
Reminds me of the 1960's case in sociology texts of the woman brutally murdered in the Bronx while the whole neighborhood listened to her screams and cries for help, each thinking someone else had called the cops.
