<p>There was a incident where a woman was being murdered in broad daylight and no one tried to help her thinking someone else would have called 911 already.</p>
<p>Some people even brought out chairs to watch.</p>
<p>The woman ended up dying.</p>
<p>Anyone recall when and where it took place?</p>
<p>From Wikipedia: Catherine Susan Genovese (July 7, 1935[1] — March 13, 1964), commonly known as Kitty Genovese, was a New York City woman who was stabbed to death near her home in the Kew Gardens section of Queens, New York.[3] The circumstances of her murder and the apparent reaction of her neighbors were reported by a newspaper article published two weeks later and prompted investigation into the psychological phenomenon that became known as the bystander effect or “Genovese syndrome.”[4]</p>
<p>I remember that well because I was in middle school, and my homeroom teacher discussed the event in class. From that time on, I vowed that if I ever saw something like that, I’d do what I could to report it.</p>
<p>More of the details of what happened in that situation: The 5’1, 100 pound, 28-year-old woman was stabbed to death by a stranger outside some apartment buildings. Thirty-eight people watched what happened. The killer even left and returned to continue stabbing her. No one called the police.</p>
<p>"Oh my God! He stabbed me!” she screamed. “Please help me! Please help me!” Some apartment lights went on in nearby buildings. Irene Frost at 82-68 Austin Street heard Catherine’s screams plainly. “There was another shriek,” she later testified in court, “and she was lying down crying out.” Up on the seventh floor of the same building, Robert Mozer slid open his window and observed the struggle below.</p>
<p>Alley behind Austin Street apartment building where victim was murdered.
(photo by author)
“Hey, let that girl alone!” he yelled down into the street. The attacker heard Mozer and immediately walked away. There was quiet once again in the dark. The only sound was the sobbing of the victim, struggling to her feet. The lights in the apartment went out again. Catherine, bleeding badly from several stab wounds, managed to reach the side of her building and held onto the concrete wall. She staggered over to a locked door and tried to stay conscious. Within five minutes, the assailant returned. He stabbed her again.</p>
<p>“I’m dying! I’m dying!” she cried to no one. But several people in her building heard her screams. Lights went on once again and some windows opened. Tenants tried to see what was happening from the safety of their apartments. …"</p>
<p>No one ever called the police even though the man returned and sexually assaulted the dying woman. The whole incident lasted at least 32 minutes.
[All</a> about the Kitty Genovese murder, by Mark Gado](<a href=“http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/kitty_genovese/1.html]All”>http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/kitty_genovese/1.html)</p>
<p>The “bystander effect” refers to the fact that if there’s a crowd of people who see some kind of emergency or crime, there’s a good chance that no one will take action because people will think someone else will take or has taken action.</p>
<p>I had my own bystander experience when my family and I were on vacation and saw a man beating up a woman in downtown Anchorage while a crowd of people watched. Remembering what happened to Kitty Genovese, I got my husband to use his cell phone to call police. (Sadly, the police asked, “Are they Indians”. My husband answered, “I don’t know what they are, but she needs help.”) The police did come to break up the fight.</p>
<p>The bystander effect proves people are lazy</p>
<p>^true…but it can be proven far easily…(idk…I have to think abt it though :D…but too tired to do so now…or isn’t it laziness!? see! :D)</p>
<p>I don’t think it proves people are lazy. I think that it proves that people in general don’t step in to take responsibility to act if they are surrounded by many other people who might take actions.</p>
<p>Studies have indicated that there’s more of a chance of someone giving help or calling the police if they’re the only bystander. Otherwise, people assume that someone else is taking action or someone else may be more qualified, etc.</p>