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Jul 15, 2019 at 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by resurgam

kitty Genovese.

In the early hours of March 13, 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed outside the apartment building across the street from where she lived in an apartment above a row of shops on Austin street in Kew Gardens, Queens, a borough of New York City. Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times[4] published an article claiming that 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack, but none of them called the police or came to her aid.[5]
The incident prompted inquiries into what became known as the bystander effect or "Genovese syndrome",[6] and the murder became a staple of American psychology textbooks for the next four decades.

see something , do nothing....really?
you see an incident of danger to a minor, or woman and do nothing figuring maybe someone else will act, or you don't want to get involved but like you no one else does anything. should have, would have , could have. can't fix something if you don't act.

no one is saying jump in and break it up. go to the office and make a complaint. call 911.
people get hurt and if it is bad enough in a campground you can bet it is much worse at home. and it will be if no one reacts.

The Kitty Genovese story is mostly a work of fiction. The murder was true, but the accounts of nearly 40 eye-witnesses sitting by and doing nothing was completely made up. Psychology's tall tales

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Recently, Joseph De May Jr., a lawyer, historian and Kew Gardens resident, has argued that few residents of nearby buildings could have seen the attack or understood that Genovese's life was in danger — and, more important, that people did intervene, by either shouting at the attacker or calling the police.

Trial testimony established that Winston Moseley attacked Genovese not three times but twice, with a 10-minute hiatus in between, argues Levine. When the first attack happened, on Austin Street, a shout from a window scared Moseley away. In addition, a retired police officer recalls that, as a boy, he saw Genovese staggering down Austin Street and Moseley fleeing in the opposite direction, and that his father called the police. Others have also said that they called, Levine adds.

As Genovese made her unsteady way around the corner and down an alley to the back vestibule of the building where she lived, Moseley returned and attacked her again — out of sight of the Austin Street windows, says Levine. A man whose apartment had a view of the second stabbing contacted another resident, who immediately called the police, according to the trial. That woman then rushed to the mortally wounded Genovese, holding her in her arms until the ambulance came, according to trial testimony.

Let me put it this way: Domestic violence is a complex and dangerous situation for everyone involved, and yes, something should be done, but you could very easily make the situation worse if you have no idea what you're doing.

You're a cop, so you should be able to enlighten us on this matter. OP stated that the situation was only swearing and shouting. There was no evidence of physical violence. Could anything have been done legally? What if the wife didn't press charges?

In the case of my neighbor, there was evidence of physical violence, but the police couldn't do anything because she refused to press charges. What does one do in that case?