Thirty-Eight Police Murder

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Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police by Martin Gansberg is a horrifying article about a killing in 1964. It talks about how Catherine Genovese was brutally stabbed to death while thirty-eight or so people watched from their apartments. While it is hard to imagine how out of thirty-eight people, all of them didn’t call the police, it is not hard to believe some of the people didn’t call to inform the authorities. In the article, there is a man who tells the police that he did call, even though he had a very hard time making a decision. The text says he phoned a friend for help, and even ran across the roof of his building to get someone else to make the call. It is understandable that not everyone can keep their head in a stressful