Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police

Martin Gansberg's narrative, "Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police," explains the murder of  Catherine Genovese, a twenty-eight year old woman that lived in Queens, New York. This murder happens in 1964, early morning hours, after midnight. Gransberg wrote this narrative to show how people in the community were not considerate enough to help Ms. Genovese at the time of her murder. He wrote this in order to show how people do not want to cooperate or be involved with law enforcement. The narrative shows this when the detective went around asking citizens why didn't they call the police when they saw the murder happening. The audience would be investigators or people that read the newspaper. In this situation we would have called the police before the murder.