People living in urban environments are less likely to help then those in rural environments (Last Name, Year). In the case of Kitty Genovese this was quite apparent as she was never offered direct help from bystanders overhearing or perhaps witnessing the event (Paciello, M., 2013). Urban people have a mutual understanding that they cannot help everyone all of the time. Along with that, urban environments provide immense distractions and haste that come with a constant motion of people coming and going which also provides greater diversity. People find it much more difficult to connect with others and empathizing is given at a lesser grade because of how unfamiliar and unrelated people are to one another on a daily basis. (Last Name, Year)