The article involves Martin narrating Kitty’s murder when a man attacked and stabbed her on her way home. Though she cried for help, the neighbors turned a deaf hear despite hearing her cry for help and didn’t bother to come out to heed to her cry. For the three times she was stabbed, neighbors helped not, but only called the police after her death, a late call that could not save her life. It was way after one and half hours from the first stabbing that neighbors came out to call the police (Gansberg, 1).

Regrettably, had the neighbors responded to Kitty’s alarm for help, she might have survived.  The onlookers were not any ‘respectable, law abiding-citizens’. Out of ignorance that it didn’t concern them and assumption that somebody else would come for help, they left Kitty to be stalked and stabbed to death by her killer. It is inexcusable ignorance to watch her get murdered, something that I cannot allow to happen as I watch. The deliberate abstention of the witnesses is unforgivable. The police line was way at their reach and there was no reason to wait until Kitty’s death to call the police (Gansberg, 2).

In a similar situation, I would not hesitate to call the police first, as I go out to offer the best of help I can give. The guilt that could haunt me cannot ever allow me to see someone perish without the least of my hand of help. The police line being readily accessible, I could call their attention to the scene with a second thought. The horror and disgust that could hang in my heart cannot allow any negligence and assumption that she could get help elsewhere. It is horrifying that such a thing could happen and quite disgusting that it happened at the watch of people and no one did anything to help Kitty. The “little good Samaritan” in me could not have allowed this to happen without a trial to help. Too tired to call the police? Too scared to come out and heed her cry? That for me is no excuse enough (Gansberg, 2, 3).

Reference

Gansberg, M. Thirtу-Eight- Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police. New York Times, 1964.