What the Numbers Show About NFL Player Arrests Sept. 12, 2014

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From The New York Times:

Off-the-field violence by professional football players is coming under new focus this week after the release of a video involving the star Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, followed by a bungled response by the National Football League.

But what do the numbers show about N.F.L. players’ tangles with the law more broadly? Are some teams’ players more likely to get into legal trouble? Are arrests rising or falling? What are the most common offenses?

USA Today maintains a database of arrests, charges, and citations of N.F.L. players for anything more serious than a traffic citation. Maintained by Brent Schrotenboer, it goes back to 2000 and covers, to date, 713 instances in which pro football players have had a run-in with the law that was reported by the news media.

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The data set is imperfect; after all, it depends on news media outlets finding out about every time a third-string offensive lineman is pulled over for driving drunk, and so some arrests may well fall through the cracks. Moreover, arrests are included even if charges are dropped or the player is found innocent, so it presumably includes legal run-ins in which the player did nothing wrong.
 
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These are spoiled meatheads who lived their lives being worshipped and used their physical prowess to intimidate anyone who wasn't a yes man. Big shocker that the intimidation carries into adulthood and family life. I enjoy watching these guys play but I have enough common sense not to consider them role models.
 
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So how so NFL arrests compare to society at large?
 

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Less focus should be on the NFL and more focus should be on the criminal justice system that only gives out slaps on the wrist to domestic violence offenders
 
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JoeyBoy718 said:
These are spoiled meatheads who lived their lives being worshipped and used their physical prowess to intimidate anyone who wasn't a yes man. Big shocker that the intimidation carries into adulthood and family life. I enjoy watching these guys play but I have enough common sense not to consider them role models.
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Yes, I find it funny when people get worked up about team athletes that they don't like based on their personality.

I assume that I wouldn't like most of them if I knew them personally. I consider them like Gladiators and we're the Roman observers. The Romans that attended the Gladiator matches didn't care about the Gladiators "personality" outside of the coliseum.
 
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xwalker said:
Yes, I find it funny when people get worked up about team athletes that they don't like based on their personality.

I assume that I wouldn't like most of them if I knew them personally. I consider them like Gladiators and we're the Roman observers. The Romans that attended the Gladiator matches didn't care about the Gladiators "personality" outside of the coliseum.
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I would hope that we would be a bit more civilized than that, but I have no doubt that some still view it that way.
 
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xwalker said:
Yes, I find it funny when people get worked up about team athletes that they don't like based on their personality.

I assume that I wouldn't like most of them if I knew them personally. I consider them like Gladiators and we're the Roman observers. The Romans that attended the Gladiator matches didn't care about the Gladiators "personality" outside of the coliseum.
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X...my standard was to leave no buddy behind...as to conduct, everyone was responsible for the repercussions of his own conduct. No apologies accepted until paid.
 
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I would hope that we would be a bit more civilized than that, but I have no doubt that some still view it that way.
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I'm not advocating for anyone to get the sword.

Some trivia:

Juvenal refers to the Roman custom of spectators’ voting on the fate of wounded gladiators with their thumbs. You may think a gladiator would appreciate the crowd’s “thumbs up” (verso pollice), but exactly the opposite is true. Where we give thumbs up as a sign of approval, it meant death to its Roman recipient; much to the crowd’s delight.

Thumbs down, signified “swords down,” which meant the loser was worth more to them alive than dead, and he was spared apparently so he could make up for his disgrace the next time he appeared in the arena. Keep this in mind the next time you give someone the “thumbs up” sign.

Our reverse interpretation of this custom apparently was the result of the work of the French artist Léon Gérôme who apparently understood the Latin verso ("turned") to mean "turned down", and therefore in his painting Pollice Verso (1873), he presents the death sentence with the thumbs-down gesture.

The painting became so popular that Gérôme’s mistake became the accepted interpretation and it is unlikely that it will ever be changed back to the meaning that it had with the Romans.
 
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