At first, Harvard did not feel it necessary to report her assault to the NYPD, thinking it was an isolated event. “I thought it was probably someone who’s mentally unwell, and I really don’t trust the police department that much,” she said. “It was violent, and I’m traumatized by it, but knowing the history of the NYPD and their use of excessive and deadly force, I didn’t want anyone to be lost over this.
This is part of the sad reality of modern America where educated people are so used to seeing everything in victimhood, that they tend to regard perpetrators of crime as having more right to victim status than the people who are the actual victims of crime. Is your attacker black, or seemingly a migrant, or behaving as if they are mentally ill? Well, it's unfair to have them arrested, no matter what they have done, and it's better, instead, to wring your hands over how terrible society is for making these people behave this way.
Stora does not match the description of Harvard’s attacker, but she believes she has a photo of the man who did punch her, based on a picture someone sent to her on Instagram. “It’s interesting to me how young women are better at being detectives than the actual police,” she said.
And this! So, you don't report the matter to the police immediately, making it more difficult for them to investigate, whilst at the same time contemptuously believing that, as a middle-class person, you can do a better job at investigating than the working-class police officers. And you base your investigation on a photograph someone sent you, which might look a bit like your attacker, seemingly unaware that these dubious identifications were historically the source of many miscarriages of justice against Africa Americans.