Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn T Call The Police By Kitty Genovese

Nobody likes a crisis. During a crisis, each and every decision made can affect the outcome of the event. But the harsh reality of a crisis is that most people involved do not know the what is actually going on until it is too late. The actions that these people take during what could shape out to be a crisis can have drastic effects on the events itself. Sometimes people will take a proactive approach and attempt to either avert or resolve a crisis. When this scenario happens, a crisis can often be deescalated or even avoided completely. Other times people will take an apathetic approach, and act as if there is not even a potential crisis at hand. When this occurs, a crisis can escalate to the point where there is no return. The crisis is too far down the

None of her neighbors thought to call the police as she was being attacked. According to Martin Gansberg in his writing “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police,” the neighbors did not act in this case because they either “didn’t want to get involved” or they “went back to bed”(130,131). The neighbors were either too lazy or too tired to help this poor woman. As a result, her attacker was able to return three different times in order to finish the crime. This is a case where remaining apathetic leads to a deadly consequence. A woman lost her life. Had her neighbors, any one of them, called the police, she does not end up dead rather she ends up getting the medical assistance she needs. Calling the police also does not allow for her killer to return. In hindsight, how did these neighbors know that a life or death situation was at hand? They are human. The murder is not their fault. If they do not want to call the police, they are free to not. However, they have to live the rest of their life knowing that had they called the police, that Kitty Genovese most likely would have lived to see the next