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Michael Dorman's The Killing Of Kitty Genovese

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Americans today tend to believe that if they see a crime happening, they think someone has helped already or called 911 and, walk on. However this is not the case with “The Killing of Kitty Genovese” in 1964 by Michael Dorman, he is a freelance writer who published this to the Newsday Inc. This murder was an intriguing case of the bystander effect. The reason for this intrigue was there were 36 people who witnessed the murder but did nothing about it. The cops were not called until 35 mins after the murder, the response was 2 mins. If someone had called at the beginning of the incident she still might be alive after all this happened for 35 minutes it took place just after 3 a.m. to 3:50 a.m. “I'm dying”! She cried (Michael Dorman) but no one gave reasonable help or called 9-1-1. One man opened his window and yelled out to the killer, but did not render any help or called the police. The salient had 35 min to stab her. …show more content…

Unfortunately, this is a sorrowful time to live, where you lawfully don't need render any help and not be fined for watching someone die. Imagine, what if you were in that type of situation would you not want someone to help you but to watch you instead. In The Killing of Kitty Genovese by (Dorman) he said that the “Assistant Chief Insp Frederick Lussen, Commander of Queens detective, said that nothing in his 25 years of police work had shocked him so

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