http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/nevada/crystal/ Crystal, NV News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/nevada/crystal/content/7d507f6c301c5d4ca39fd27fe873825b.html Risa Ewert and Lori Roach joined a host of job seekers jamming a Nevada JobConnect office in Reno Friday representing real life portraits of the larger nationwide surge in unemployment I39;ve been looking said Ewert an experienced restaurant operator http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/nevada/crystal/content/b2c07d49959cdfef4f929fd4cb4ca1fe.html Tyler George Boutelle 29 and Crystal Kelley Craig 32 both of Truckee Calif http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/nevada/crystal/content/0a8849480343b12233906abd0526f205.html The Community Stadium 2009 project is moving forward after a unanimous approval Wednesday night from the Incline VillageCrystal Bay Citizen Advisory Board http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/nevada/crystal/content/f0d26662d30c9b16eb513c975af49bc7.html Five bus robbery suspects sought with videoCrime Library: All about the Kitty Genovese murderRegional Transportation Commission: Transit Rules of ConductIt looks like theyre having fun Five young men riding a city bus down Las Vegas Boulevard taking turns punching another passenger out of his wallet In some frames of the surveillance video their faces are frozen in roller coaster freefall thrill smiling as sweetly as swampland salesmen In other frames theyre throwing fits of fists then shoving then smiling againSeveral passengers watched the robbery happen Not one intervenedIts a predictable outcome that illustrates a dark truth: The more people who witness a crime the less likely any of them will help the victimYou probably wouldnt have lifted a finger either by the way At least thats what the research suggests Sorry to deflate that dreamy hero hallucinationWhat did and didnt happen on that CAT bus just after midnight July 26 is most comfortably dissected through the lens of certain psychological phenomena First you have whats called diffusion of responsibility when multiple people observe a crime individual witnesses assume someone else in the crowd will intervene Its a division of apathy: More people mean less individual responsibilityThe most famous example of diffusion of responsibility is also the oldest The name Kitty Genovese will be familiar to psychology students who read the chapter in their textbooks about the Queens womans murder in 1964 which occurred over a 30minute period and was heard by a number of people The New York Times initially reported the assault was observed by 38 people none of whom called police Though the number was ultimately disproved and there were later reports that police were called but didnt respond promptly the murders powerful impact in the world of social psychology remains Diffusion of responsibility is also called the bystander effect and is sometimes referred to as Genovese syndromeJohn Darley a professor of psychology at Princeton was the first to publish a study on the bystander effect in a laboratory setting He put college students through tests in the early 1960s that would never fly today in one experiment he had study subjects fill out surveys in rooms that slowly filled with smoke In another he watched what subjects did when they heard a woman screaming for help in an adjoining room In a third he watched what happened when a person talking over an intercom suddenly hears his conversation partner choke and call for helpIn each circumstance Darley waited to see how long it would take subjects to alert researchers of the problem They found the time it took for people to speak up was influenced by the number of people they thought were participating in the study with them In some cases people never said a wordSo when Darley watches the video of the bus robbery he isnt shocked or surprised or particularly disturbed First of all it cannot be discounted that intervening when violence is in progress is a tough sell something that would scare anybody This is compounded by the fact that if nobody intervenes it can almost normalize the violence and make it seem as if nobody really needs to get involvedTheres a tendency for people to interpret other peoples lack of response as indicating no response is needed Darley saidThis is called pluralistic ignorance if nobody else is helping the help must not be needed They must know something I dontKitty Genovese was killed over a relatively long period of time but the bus incident couldnt have lasted more than a few minutes not much time Darley says to figure out a course of action particularly if nobody on the bus looks too worried And nobody does One witness appears to be laughing but thats another conversationOne of the five suspects grabbed the victims wallet while he was trying to get out of the bus and police dont know whether the driver waited for the assault to end or simply kept on driving as if nothing were wrong If the driver kept driving if the bus authority ignored the assault its even easier to see how passengers might assume they need not intervene Darley saidSome studies suggest that people who empathize with victims are more likely to intervene Study subjects who say have a brief conversation with a person they later see victimized are more likely to speak up and sooner Darley saidThe bus incident illustrates a behavior we morally condemn particularly people who werent on the bus who insist they would have jumped in with aid But study subjects in Darleys lab who were shown how they were influenced by the crowd nice brave college students who had the bystander phenomenon spelled out for them were more likely to intervene later And this speaks toan altogether more agreeable human trait the ability to learn from mistakesAt some point the five suspects walked off the bus into the dark Police posted the surveillance video on Facebook and MySpace asking people Do You Recognize These TeensAs of Wednesday evening nobody had come forward http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/nevada/crystal/content/f6631e768356ea89ba0edbf1fa4cdfc2.html A new Boulder Bay proposal for road redesign is on the Incline VillageCrystal Bay Citizen Advisory Board's agenda this week http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/nevada/crystal/content/c4fbe502f7cb0eefdd8ec860a585f39e.html I've never been fond of jumping on bandwagons It's just not something I enjoy Also I can't think straight when everyone else on board is barreling for the finish line and I don't know what winning would mean http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/nevada/crystal/content/5cb3b416cb040e877267ce686f9c19c0.html A fire burning South of South Lake Tahoe is expected to be contained before the week is over The Burnside fire an approximately 200acre blaze burning in Hope Valley is at about 50 percent containment officials from the US Forest Service said http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/nevada/crystal/content/2aaaf1c666a317d845b33f8a2ce452f2.html Evacuations orders have been lifted as the Burnside Fire in Hope Valley California that began Sunday begins to slow down Firefighters say