Still shocked is Assistant Chief Inspector Frederick M. Lussen‚ in charge of the borough’s detectives and a veteran of 25 years of homicide investigations. He can give a matter-of-fact recitation on many murders. But the Kew Gardens slaying baffles him--not because it is a murder‚ but because the "good people" failed to call the police. "As we have reconstructed the crime‚" he said‚ "the assailant had three chances to kill this woman during a 35-minute period. He returned twice to
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As a child growing up in Canada‚ I was very sheltered when it came to racism. I was raised around different races and my best friend was white. From Pre-School‚ I sat in classrooms with several other races. Statesboro’s school system was filled with many different types of people. There were no cliques or groups‚ everyone stayed in mixed company. I cannot recall a time when someone called me out my name living here. As far as I knew‚ everyone was treated with the same amount of respect no matter
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In the story “38 People Who Saw Murder Didn’t Called The Police” a women named Katherine Genovese also called Kitty has been brutally murdered in her neighborhood and many people witness this horrific killing but chose not to call the police until it was too late for her life to be saved. But what would’ve happened if someone had acted sooner; Of course to state the obvious kitty will most likely still be alive. The author Martin Gansberg has given the situation on how people chose not to act but
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The murder of Cartherine Genovese was an event that headlined news stories across the country‚ however it wasn’t the murder itself that shocked people. According to Gansberg’s essay "37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police" the shock was that thirty seven people witnessed the murder but no one called the police. Since then this case has been used as an example of human fear in criminal and psychology classes. However there have been more accounts which tell a different story
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Reading Response 2: 38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police I think the article was written in order to highlight the level of ignorance that had crept into society especially towards violence‚ perhaps in wake of the recent increase of violent imagery on television. I feel it was intended to act as an eye-opener for the readers which shows them how such shameless acts of laziness can claim lives. The tone that Gansberg uses throughout the article is one that is slightly aggressive especially when describing
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Response Essay to 37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police “Let that girl alone!” was all the effort a bystander‚ witnessing an attack‚ could put into saving a woman’s life; the man couldn’t be bothered with anything more. Miss Kitty Genovese could have survived that night two separate times if someone would have simply lifted the telephone to call the police and report seeing her attacked. At the time of her death 37 people had witnessed her trying to frantically escape from her assailant. There
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another stage where the next band we wanted to see was playing. When we got to the next stage‚ the previous band was still playing‚ and the crowd was huge. We decided to wait in the back until they finished. About halfway through their last song‚ I saw a man holding a teenager in a head-lock. He was dragging him towards me from the middle of the mosh pit. The man threw the teenager to the ground and started screaming at him. This drew everyone’s attention that was in the general area. Before I knew
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"When the flood waters recede‚ the poor folk along the river start from scratch." In Richard Wright’s "The Man Who Saw the Flood‚" the catastrophic flood-losses facing a poor family of sharecroppers reveal the circumstances that force the emancipated but still ignorant and debased blacks to become indebted to and thus re-enslaved by the same whites from whom they received freedom. Wright’s resigned yet resolute protagonists show that even hollow hopes can drive people to noble perseverance in
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38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police Summary Chris Teeters College Writing Professor O’ Hearn May 19‚ 2009 Millions of murders are committed in the United States every year. We see these stories on the news‚ in newspapers‚ and sometimes in our own neighborhoods. Sadly there are people who go into the world and kill their fellow man and sometimes without remorse. The only way that we can prevent these events from happening again or at all is to bring these criminals
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Name Subject 04.12.2017 Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police: A Review The article describes the last moments of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese’s life that lead to her death; how she was attacked three times on her way home and eventually killed by the same assailant‚ and how the 38 people in her neighborhood who heard her cries for help did not intervene or call the police to her rescue. It also details the disappointment and confusion of the police who argues that the victim might have
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