Kitty Genovese: 50 years later

[SQLGeek]

March 13 is the 50th anniversary of the murder of Kitty Genovese. I saw this article trending on Yahoo and figured it'd be worth a share.

Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers' seeming callousness toward their neighbors.

The case "caught the spirit of the time," said Thomas Reppetto, a police historian. "It seemed to symbolize that society no longer cared about other people."

Genovese's random stabbing by Winston Moseley on March 13, 1964, became a sensation when The New York Times reported that "38 respectable, law-abiding citizens" in Queens watched the attack unfold over more than half an hour and didn't call police during the assault.

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[Oldgringo]

March 13 is the 50th anniversary of the murder of Kitty Genovese. I saw this article trending on Yahoo and figured it'd be worth a share.

Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers' seeming callousness toward their neighbors.

The case "caught the spirit of the time," said Thomas Reppetto, a police historian. "It seemed to symbolize that society no longer cared about other people."

Genovese's random stabbing by Winston Moseley on March 13, 1964, became a sensation when The New York Times reported that "38 respectable, law-abiding citizens" in Queens watched the attack unfold over more than half an hour and didn't call police during the assault.

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[jimlongley]

Right around the time I turned 18 and joined the volunteer fire department, which, for our little hamlet was about as close to a "governmental entity" as existed for us below the town level.

And the first I ever heard of some of the dirty politics, and then the major reason for my recruitment into a movement that unfortunately failed. A movement to partition NY State at about the level of the Tappan Zee Bridge and allow NY City to become either a separate state, or preferably a District like D.C. Our movement was due to the city ruling us, upstate, politically, the preponderance of legislators are from there, and we were sick of it and wanted rid of a place where something like Kitty Genovese's horrible murder could happen. Our movement was probably doomed to failure from the start, as the city legislators would basically have to have given us permission, and they were not about to lose the whole state, but we hung on for years, never making the news except being defined as crackpots and such.