Martin Gansberg's Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn T Call The Police

The assailant came back to further hurt Kitty a total of two separate times in over half an hour and no one called the police. Martin Gansberg does an extraordinary job of capturing the scene of the murder and those who aided in her death. Gansberg further captures this through powerful displays of diction, tone, repetition, and appropriate use of dialogue. Gansberg’s diction throughout the passage is one of extreme formality as he is writing for the New York Times and must stay neutral. However, this formality also comes with an undertone of passive aggressiveness. For example, he writes about the thirty-eight who could have saved her, “Twice their chatter and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights interrupted and frightened him off...Not one person telephones the police during the assault” (Gansberg 120). While Gansberg is being professional and formal, he is showing hints of emotion through his tone. He is berated that many people didn't help and yet doesn't actually express his uneasiness. Additionally, another characteristic of the article is how Gansberg repeats the time, “This is what the police say happened beginning at 3:20 A.M.” (Gansberg 121). Again recalling the time, “The assailant got into his car and drove away. Miss Genovese staggered to her feet...It was 3:35 A.M.” (Gansberg 121). Further recollection, “It was

During the early 1980’s, crime rate in New York was at its peak. To prove this point, Gladwell gives an example of the Bernard Goetz shooting. Gladwell also highlights that Goetz was viewed as a hero and people celebrated when he was easily acquitted on charges of assault and attempted murder. Gladwell mentions this to give us an example of the incidents that used to take place on the subways

‘“I can accept the shooting was a mistake,” Jones said about his daughter’s death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. “But I can’t accept it because they lied about it. I can’t heal properly because of it. It was all for the cameras. I don’t want no apology from the police. It’s too late”’ (LeDuff, 122).

“Yeah, but it wasn’t a peaceful death, I need to make this right!” Said Harvey Brock. He had spent the entire day asking everyone he knew about his mother’s murder, but no one would dare to answer. How could they when every cop in the city would turn a blind eye to crime for

In the story I think the author Gansberg did a good job by explaining the crime scene in full detail. This allowed him the show he true emotions of the situation. I believe Gansberg was truly angry the most when he said, “…the people came out.” He was most angry in this situation because all of the nearby civilians by Miss Genovese came outside when it was too late to help her. The civilians should have came out when the stabbing was taking place I feel as if the cops were mostly confused on why someone didn’t call the police. As when police asked a women why she didn’t call the police she said I don’t know I feel like this was when the police were most disappointed in the fact that the civilians had a chance to save Miss Genovese life by

In Steven Millhauser’s The Slap, a the sudden appearance of a serial slapper terrorizes a small commuter town. The man slaps unknowing victims then vanishes, leaving all residents on high alert. The tension and uncertainty about what is occurring leaves the town shocked, afraid, and outraged. The author uses this situation to show a theme about human interaction. The theme of The Slap is, “security is an illusion,” and the author reveals this theme by describing how the slapper's victims react, how the town reacts, and the change the town goes through before and after the slap.

People are enraged by the fact that 35 people lost their lives to police in circumstances where lethal action was not necessary. Readers use this statistic to further argue that police need to be held responsible for their violent actions, especially when they kill people with a weapon that is not intended to be cause death. Many citizens, especially in Baltimore, are speaking out against police brutality; statistics, like the one described previously, help form biases against the police force. This statistic causes readers to draw conclusions about police brutality, even though there is no comparison to previous years or a description of how the victim died.

If you had the opportunity to go back in time and save someone’s life with no more than a phone call would you do it? I’m sure you would, along with the 37 bystanders who witnessed the assault of an innocent young woman who cried for help, yet did nothing. Although it is not surprising to hear about homicides often occurring in New York City, the murder of Catherine ‘Kitty’ Genovese is an iconic tragedy because of the lack of compassion and humanity exhibited by the neighbors who could have prevented this tragic death. It seems though people are losing a sense of community over the fear of “getting involved”.

“We have unscrupulous men and organizations working in opposition to us. Some trying to capitalize…some are trying to set [us] back from seeing the hope of [our] own liberty. But [we] know what propaganda means.” -Marcus Garvey (The Future As I See It, 1923) Thomas shows the major role that media propaganda plays in highly publicized, controversial cases. She addresses the elephant in the room when it comes to media coverage and the portrayal of victims at the hands of police brutality and other unjust killings. Thomas asks the question: is an unarmed person’s killing justified because of the person’s socioeconomic status, at-risk label, or troubled past?

One of the most well known of these cases is the murder of Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old female who was brutally attacked in the streets of New York City. Although this may seem along the lines of an everyday murder case, the difference is that, while she was being attacked, none of Kitty’s reported 38 neighbors who heard her screams did anything as much as call the police (CITE PSYCH TODAY). While calling the police may not have saved Kitty’s life, the fact that no single neighbor took any action has had psychologists puzzled for years. How could you hear her screams and see her being attacked and fail to do anything? Psychologists have named this phenomenon the “bystander effect.”

“Raped. Tortured. Killed. Here. In New York. Outside her own apartment building. Almost forty neighbors heard screams. Nobody did anything. Nobody called cops. Some of them even watched. Do you understand? Some of them even watched. I knew what people were, then, behind all the evasions, all the self-deception. Ashamed for humanity, I went home.” (Watchmen, pg. 188)

The case with the policeman killing a young man in a street gives us a background for 360 degree analysis from the point of social psychology. First of all it is important to mention the construct of power which Philip Zimbardo studied precisely (Aronson, 2007, p.10-11). In the Stanford experiment he proves that people, who get power, are likely to overuse it and act in a cruel way. This reflects the situation when the police officer overuses his rights and kills Raheem. Another worthy phenomena in this context is the uninvolved bystander as conformist phenomenon. This concept appeared after a young woman was killed in a street thein a full view of the neighborhood (Aronson, 2007, p.49). No one called police back then and no one tried to help

"38 Who Saw Murder and Didn't Call the Police," is a true report about a woman named Kitty Genovese,who was stabbed multiple times by a man named . The strange thing about this murder is the fact that multiple people saw it happen, yet failed to call the police. The predetor was scared off multiple times by people's lights in their windows, and voices, but he came back each time to finish off the murder.

Thank you for your positive critique of my summary! When I am reading a story, novel, book, or narrative, I prefer to be able to paint a picture of what the author is trying to impose. Likewise, I do agree with your interpretation as the narrative seemed to confuse the audience. Furthermore, I have been studying criminal law for the past eight months; when reading "Who Saw Murder Didn't Call Police," I was astounded at the lack of details in the narrative and the deficiency of facts. For example, the Good Samaritan doctrine was not mentioned in the narrative; the Good Samaritan doctrine provides protection to an individual that does choose to intervene. If the author had added the law to his summary, I presume that he could have grasped the

We’ve all had these moments in our lives, some more than others. Yes, it’s unfortunate, just standing there, cat got your tongue and not being able to put an end to the situation. May it be bullying, an act of violence, discrimination or something just wrong. We’ve been through this either as the victim or a passerby. We’ve been silenced even though we want to bring justice to those who did wrong. Could things have been different? What would the outcome have been, if only...? What if? We’ve all asked ourselves these questions, but we can't help our curiosity,