Radiolab produced an episode about this: "No Special Duty" in October 2020. They re-aired June 2022.
Joseph Lozito was brutally stabbed by a mentally unwell man while on an NYC subway train. Police officers were IN the car with him, on the lookout for a man who had in a short period of time unprovokedly attacked many other people with a k…
Radiolab produced an episode about this: "No Special Duty" in October 2020. They re-aired June 2022.
Joseph Lozito was brutally stabbed by a mentally unwell man while on an NYC subway train. Police officers were IN the car with him, on the lookout for a man who had in a short period of time unprovokedly attacked many other people with a knife. They were tipped off that the attacker may have fled to the subway. So they were tasked with apprehending a person known to have stabbed multiple people with a knife and they witnessed a man getting attacked by another man wielding a large knife but they hid during the incident because they feared for their lives.
Lozito sued the NYC police for looking on as he was attacked and he lost because the judge ruled that police officers had "no special duties" to protect the lives of civilians at risk of their own lives.
Radiolab produced an episode about this: "No Special Duty" in October 2020. They re-aired June 2022.
Joseph Lozito was brutally stabbed by a mentally unwell man while on an NYC subway train. Police officers were IN the car with him, on the lookout for a man who had in a short period of time unprovokedly attacked many other people with a knife. They were tipped off that the attacker may have fled to the subway. So they were tasked with apprehending a person known to have stabbed multiple people with a knife and they witnessed a man getting attacked by another man wielding a large knife but they hid during the incident because they feared for their lives.
Lozito sued the NYC police for looking on as he was attacked and he lost because the judge ruled that police officers had "no special duties" to protect the lives of civilians at risk of their own lives.