There have been 321 arrests of NFL players since 2010

Business Insider ^ | 09/30/2016 | Cork Gaines

[ForYourChildren]

Let me know when the PGA starts taking a knee. :)

[kallisti]

Yeah, retroactive CTE, that’s the ticket.

[CGASMIA68]

321 excuses

[bgill]

There would have been fifty times more arrests if the cops weren’t fans and let them off or the owners didn’t step in to buy them out of trouble.

[shanover]

Ray Rice nearly killed his wife (video is gruesome) and there were some women who SUPPORTED him. I think half of pro sports has domestic violence players. Most of pro sports (outside of hockey)is predominately a certain type of fellow.

[Vehmgericht]

How many players were recognized and asked for an autograph and given a warning? “A Louisiana DA has dropped weapons and drugs charges against two Alabama football players - claiming he doesn’t want to ‘ruin their lives’.
Sophomores Cam Robinson and Laurence ‘Hootie’ Jones were arrested in May at a park in Monroe, Louisiana.” This tends to distort the stats.

[discostu]

Those would be college kids. An excellent way to distort the facts.

[ridesthemiles]

I wonder how many NASCAR drivers have been arrested in that same amount of time???

Who remembers watching Dale Earnhardt drive slowly down pit lane after finally winning the Daytona 500 & EVERY single team member of EVERY single team was out along the wall to touch his hand???

[Windflier]

What is CTE | Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Thank you, ma'am.

[nicollo]

Which puts them dramatically below the average for males in that age group.

Depends on what they mean by "NFL Player" in these stats. Is it anyone who has played in the league or active players? I'm guessing the latter, which would mean that these numbers don't include former, short-lived, and peripheral players (practice teams, minor leagues, college, etc.).

I'm damned sure that the arrest rates for similarly-aged white collar professional males are far less than these NFL numbers, even as skewed to active players only.

[Vehmgericht]

You accuse me of distorting the facts. I gave an example and they were college students. Tell me this does not occur with the NFL. This was an example. Perhaps you cannot comprehend. It was an example.

[discostu]

When the discussion is NFL players bringing in a college player anecdote is a distortion. For one thing the plural of anecdote isn’t fact, for another it’s a different group entirely. Perhaps you cannot comprehend it was a distortion.

[discostu]

“NFL player” means active player on a roster or practice squad. And what you’re “damned sure” of is simply false. NFL arrest rate is less than half the general population.

[Vehmgericht]

The point I was making was that there are classes of people who benefit from their celebrity. I could have used movie stars or LEOs as an example. Tell me that professional football players never get a break from law enforcement. The plural of fried chicken is not meatball. How is that relevant?

[discostu]

And they would all be besides the point for the reasons I already outlined.

[nicollo]

“NFL player” means active player on a roster or practice squad. And what you’re “damned sure” of is simply false. NFL arrest rate is less than half the general population.

That's not what I was arguing, which you just confirmed: it's certain that among non-active players crime rates are much higher, which makes that statistic about active-players irrelevant.

[discostu]

It is not certain that among non-active players crime rates are higher. That’s you making crap up.

[nicollo]

Not sure what your agenda here is but to say that NFL players, whether active or not, have the same crime rates is entirely ridiculous. Of course they are. And of course those statistics about active players are misleading, since they don’t include crimes committed by non-active players.

Very simple, logical, and certain.

[discostu]

Non-active players aren’t active, they are no longer within that demographically defined group. It would be like counting a 30 year in the 18-25 demo because in order to be 30 they once must have been 18-25. The stat is about ACTIVE NFL players, that’s the defined group, nothing misleading about it.