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Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect

In the spring of 1964, there was a brutal murder in Queens. The New York Times reported that thirty-seven people watched and heard Kitty Genovese’s murder. Her neighbors did nothing. Poor Kitty, a single working girl, died alone. The story became an indictment of urban dehumanization, and an indictment of …