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This is a well-documented phenomena. People tend to stay out of situations like this. In the '70's there was a big case in NYC where a woman was repeatedly stabbed to death in an apartment complex while people watched and didn't call any police. I can't remember enough of my psych classes to remember what the technical terms and motives for this type of behavior are (maybe someone who knows more in the field could explain) but it is accepted fact. Chances are, you wouldn't have stopped, and according to many tests, the fact that you were even bothering to call the police is more than what many people would do. As the number of people in a situation seem to rise, more an more people will rely on someone else to handle the situation.
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