Bystander intervention is a term used to describe the interruption of behavior or speech by someone who is a present or a bystander. Some examples of bystander intervention are:
confronting people who seclude, hit on, try to make out with, or have sex with people who are incapacitated;
speaking up when someone discusses plans to take sexual advantage of another person;
calling police when a person is yelling at another and it is not safe for you to interrupt;
interjecting yourself into a conversation where another person seems unsafe;
refusing to leave the area (or call police) if a person is trying to get you to leave so they can take advantage of another;
speaking up with people use racist, sexist, homophobic, or other harmful language;
offering to drive an incapacitated friend home from a party;
ensuring friends who are incapacitated do not leave the party or go to secluded places with others.
