38 Didn't Call the Police

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Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call The Police In the essay “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call The Police”, the writer Gansberg wrote about a woman, Ms. Catherine Genovese, who was murdered in her neighborhood that had occurred in the 1990’s. The murder occurred in a middle class area where there were witnesses who saw the murder and didn’t call the police. In paragraph thirty-one in the essay, the writer informed readers that the only time the witnesses came out was when the murder had occurred after the body was taken. Gansberg expresses a type of personal anger towards the entire situation because it could have been prevented. Pertaining to the essay, humans are naturally selfish. Even though some of the witnesses had an “excuse” not calling the police, they are still considered selfish. Why? None of the witnesses mentioned did not had a valid reason to why they could not have called the police to prevent Ms. Catherine’s death. Some had very poor excuse to why they could not have called the police. For instance, there was one witness that said that he was “tired” and went back to bed. This was the one witness that had me believe that there are people without a warm heart or without an optimistic mind. Other witnesses said that they just did not wanted to get involve, others were scared and some just did not have any reason to why they didn’t call the police. In the essay it gives the duration of time the murderer took to actually finish off his victim. With that fifteen minutes interval of the stabbing, Ms. Catherine could have been saved. All she needed was one phone call to the police for help. The writer specifically stated the police number which was ‘zero’. The writer also included the zero to demonstrate to his readers how easily this number could have been dialed for help. How difficult dialing a one digit number which is zero on a

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