News: Why the Dallas Cowboys are not outlaws

[CCBoy]

Why the Dallas Cowboys are not outlaws
http://thelandryhat.com/2017/07/07/dallas-cowboys-not-outlaws/

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...When articles slamming the Cowboys for their players’ off the field incidents appear, the main argument is Dallas has the worst handle of them compared to the rest of the NFL. In affect, making them the outlaws of the league.

However, the actual figures show a different picture. According to NFL Arrest (a website that compiles NFL arrest records), Dallas isn’t even close to the top spot.

Over the last five years, Dallas ranks 11th in player arrests (1 being the most). Furthermore, from January 1, 2000 to July 6, 2017, the Cowboys ranked 23rd. Of the seven arrests in the last five years, three have been violent crimes. The increase in ranking is problematic and needs to be addressed. However, painting the Cowboys as the only team with this issue is irresponsible...

 

[CCBoy]

A 24-hour news cycle, viral videos and tweets about football players’ run-ins with the law can make it seem like criminal activity is an epidemic in the National Football League.

But a new UT Dallas study refutes that impression. The research found that the overall arrest rate for the general population was nearly twice as high as the rate for NFL players from 2000 to 2013.

“There’s a perception that the NFL has this huge crime problem and that it’s longstanding. That’s what everybody believes,” said one of the study’s authors, Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology and associate dean for graduate programs in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. “The data show that it’s not true. Over a 14-year period, for most types of crime, the general population has a greater rate of arrests than players in the NFL.”...

http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2015/8...y-wide.html?WT.mc_id=NewsHomePageCenterColumn

 

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