Gang members hold positions at ‘highest levels’ of LA Sheriff’s department
What is this phenomenon -- is it the "bystander effect" or something else?<p>Pretty much everyone knows that the LA Sheriff's Department has been heavily infiltrated by gangs like the Compton Executioners. The phenomenon is extensively well-documented in the press and it even has a Wikipedia entry.<p>But … no one cares?<p>The federal government's Department of Justice just ignores it? ( <a href="https://raskin.house.gov/2022/2/chairman-raskin-rep-gomez-urge-doj-to-investigate-deputy-gangs-within-the-la-county-sheriff-s-department" rel="nofollow">https://raskin.house.gov/2022/2/chairman-raskin-rep-gomez-ur...</a> )<p>At the state and county level, people just kind of ignore it?<p>And individuals can't do much about it, since after all the state has a monopoly on violence?<p>I mentioned the deputy gangs to a family member a while back and they were baffled that nobody is doing anything about it. But who would?<p>What is the word for "assuming someone else is going to do something about that, but there is no one"?