What if you were being maliciously attacked in your own neighborhood? Would you expect your neighbors to help you? What if your neighbors did not do anything but turned on their lights, yelled insignificant words out the window, and proceeded back to bed? 38 Who Saw Murder Didnt Call Police written by Martin Gansberg is an unsettling true story in which the aforementioned scenario did happen to a woman named Kitty Genovese. Gansberg never states who was right or wrong in his essay, but rather used the dialogues from Kitty's neighbors and implied his perspective upon the readers. Gansberg shrewdly uses this technique to express his feelings without ever coming out and expressing how he feels. I coincide with Gansberg's perspective because Kitty's neighbors had the time to take action, a profusion of chances, and her neighbors did not seem to care.
Kitty's neighbors of Kew Gardens in Queens had plenty of time to phone for help. Kitty was stabbed by the assailant at what the police said was 3:20am. Her third and terminal stab was around 3:35am because the city bus, O-10, had just left the Lefferts Boulevard line to Kenny International Airport. Her neighbors had a timeframe of fifteen minutes to phone for help. This is an obscene amount of time to call for help. She may have easily been saved had her neighbors phoned the police. The police received their first phone call at 3:50am, fifteen minutes following her death. Her seventy year old neighbor made the call. The police arrived at the scene within a mere two minutes. If the police were phoned as soon as the first stabbing occurred, there would not have been a second or third fatal stabbing and the suspect may have been caught much sooner. All it took to save her life was a simple phone call. Time was on her side but her neighbors were not.
Kitty's neighbors of Kew Gardens not only had the time to call for help, but also a profusion of chances.
Kitty Genovese Personally, I think the whole Kitty Genovese story is not only disturbing but sad not only because she died, but because no one did anything to prevent it. ... They showed no respect for Kitty and I feel bad for her because I am sure that she was a really nice person and she totally didn't deserve what happened to her. ...
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