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    The Death of Kitty Genovese Martin Gansberg was a reporter for the New York times for over 40 years. He was born in Brooklyn, and he earned an award for excellence for writing this article in 1964. Gansberg tells us the story of the murder of “Kitty.” A twenty-eight-year-old Catherine Genovese, who was called “Kitty” by almost everyone in the neighborhood. The man stabbed Kitty to death. Kitty cried for help, and the neighbors heard her, but did not do much to help. After Kitty was dead, the…

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    1964, 38 people watched, 38 people looked away, 38 people did not do anything, only 1 person suffered. That's what happened in "The Dying Girl that No One Helped," an editorial by Loudon Wainright. In the editorial Wainright tells about Kitty Genovese and how she was murdered in front of at least 38 witnesses. After the murder nobody wanted to fess up and explain what happened that night, they did not even want to call the police. This editorial shows everyone the sad truth of how society…

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    The Fatal Third Attack In the article “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police,” Martin Gansberg describe how the death of Catherine Genovese happened and how as many as 37 people witness the murder but did not call the authorities to investigate the situation before it was too late. Gansberg explains that on March 13, 1964, at 3:20 AM, Catherine Genovese had just parked her car and was heading home to her apartment on 82-70 Austin Street, as she was approaching the apartment she noticed a man…

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    Mary Meyer’s murder has remained unsolved for almost half a century. On a fall day in 1964, Mary, best known for her affair with John F. Kennedy, was murdered in a Washington DC neighborhood, Georgetown. In Lance Morrow’s, “Woman, Interrupted”, he describes the first-hand account of the murder scene and offers two possible theories of why Mary was murdered. He also provides insight to some of the most powerful women in Washington. Lance, a young reporter for the Washington Star, heard the…

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    Koh's Bystander Effect

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    of a young woman, Kitty Genovese was murdered there were 38 bystanders at the window of an apartment buildings and 5 shoppers have stepped over the bleeding body that is LaShanda Calloway, and none of the 38 “bystanders” help Genoese as she was being murdered and none of the 5 shoppers stop to help Calloway.…

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    The hotel Monte Vista was built in 1926. It is located in Flagstaff , Arizona. The hotel opened on New Year’s Day in 1927. The tourism was in the mid 1920’s ,the local residents areeds Flag staff needed the first-class accommodations. The old existing hotels were outmoded. The began in April of 1926,and within 1 month it is investments of prominent citizens , funds donated by the novelist Zane Grey and totaled roughly $2000,000. In 1970 there were three men who robbed the bank…

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    The Bonanno Crime Report

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    At the time of Motanga's alleged rise to boss, a March 2009 article in the New York Post claimed that the Bonanno family consisted of approximately around 130 non-imprisoned "made"(Editors, 2015) members. Montagna was shortly then deported to Canada in April 2009 which left the family to create a ruling board of members until a new boss could be chosen. They chose to not follow any orders from Vincent Basciano since he was appointed by Massino who had turned rat to the FBI. They could no longer…

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    In February of 2016 a man was assaulted in front of a seven eleven in chicago. The man named Marques Gaines. He had a confrontation with another man which lead the another man to punch Marques and knock him out onto the street. After Marques is on the street unconscious, the attack and his friend steal everything Marques had in his pocket. Eventually the attacks leave. Seconds after the attacks leave a group of bystander surround Marques but didn't do anything to help him and eventually leave…

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    Salinas Gangs

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    related to a family. Therefore, gang is an organized group of family. Each family controls a city, and the conformation of these families is like a tree. All of these families are controlled by a don, or leader. And also each city has own advise who helps his boss. Like most of the countries, the USA also suffers from gang related criminals, but the USA has a different history…

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    Kitty Genovese is referenced, a woman who was assaulted and killed on the street twenty-two years ago, whose neighbors heard screaming for help, and was ignored. He argued that in this case, we have given all the power to the person committing the crime. That as a people, our morals have equated to cowardice, and that is why the government should have the authority to protect us from monsters committing similar crimes repeatedly. “When we protect guilty lives…

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