The 2015 " I just can't stay out of jail " Thread .

[woodbuck27]

http://blog.startribune.com/sports/access-vikings/vikings-cb-jabari-price-arrested-for-dwi

Vikings CB Jabari Price arrested on DWI

Posted by: Matt Vensel Updated January 2nd at 7:10pm

[MadScientist]

The standard penalty for DWI for 7th round special teams guys is getting cut. The announcement should come in a day or two, although since there season is over, they might see if this will blow over if they really like the guy.

[woodbuck27]

The standard penalty for DWI for 7th round special teams guys is getting cut. The announcement should come in a day or two, although since there season is over, they might see if this will blow over if they really like the guy.

OK.

We're going to see all sorts of off season stuff like this. I thought it might be interesting to keep it all on one thread.

[MadScientist]

We're going to see all sorts of off season stuff like this. I thought it might be interesting to keep it all on one thread.

Yea, if there were a thread for each NFL person who gets arrested in the offseason it would get ridiculous around here. So here's another one:
http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf...r_gale_7.html\
Bigger problem, since the guy was a captain and just signed a 4-year extension.

[Patler]

According to PFT, on 12/26/2014, the NFL had gone 40 days without an arrest. That was the first time since PFT started keeping track in 2007 that the 40 day mark was reached. Apparently the "record" now stands at 42 days.

The article:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...o-nfl-arrests/

[mraynrand]

It would be nice if all the losers who constantly try to sell the meme that football players are more likely to be criminals, etc. would run, as a control, a side-by-side comparison to a random sample of demographically matched men.

[Patler]

It would be nice if all the losers who constantly try to sell the meme that football players are more likely to be criminals, etc. would run, as a control, a side-by-side comparison to a random sample of demographically matched men.

Hard to really answer that. How do you match them demographically, by their backgrounds, or by their current status of making roughly $250k/year to millions/year?

There are around 2,000 currently "in the league" during the season, and another seven-hundred or so in the off-season. Throw in a few hundred part-timers and hangers on. So roughly 3,000 were part of the league at one time or another in 2014. It appears there were 48 arrests in 2014. So 1.6%?

Are 2% of the highest wage-earners in the US arrested annually? Interesting question.

[QBME]

It would be nice if all the losers who constantly try to sell the meme that football players are more likely to be criminals, etc. would run, as a control, a side-by-side comparison to a random sample of demographically matched men.

Wouldn't that be a pretty hard match?

Male
21 - 32 (or so) years old
2-5 years of college
Full time employment
$420,000.00 - $18,500,000.00 yearly income, plus benefits & perks

[pbmax]

It would be nice if all the losers who constantly try to sell the meme that football players are more likely to be criminals, etc. would run, as a control, a side-by-side comparison to a random sample of demographically matched men.

The rates have been found to usually be lower. But the demographic match, as Patler alludes to, is tough. They normally go with a similar age or age range. The Duke study below uses figures for 20 year olds.

https://stat.duke.edu/~dalene/chance/chanceweb/123.nflviol.pdf

http://sbronars.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/does-the-nfl-have-a-crime-problem/

From an outfit who politics probably don't align with yours, here is an overview of those two links and some other material: http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&gl=us&strip=1

[woodbuck27]

Yea, if there were a thread for each NFL person who gets arrested in the offseason it would get ridiculous around here. So here's another one:
http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf...r_gale_7.html\
Bigger problem, since the guy was a captain and just signed a 4-year extension.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/saints-sack-leader-galette-arrested-domestic-disturbance-191416330--nfl.html

Comment woodbuck27: This gets to the heart of the matter.

Saints sack leader Galette arrested in domestic disturbance

By BRETT MARTEL (AP Sports Writer) ...... 34 minutes ago

[mraynrand]

buncha smartasses with the coin part. Try matching them with their peers who didn't make it into pro football. Duh.

[mraynrand]

The rates have been found to usually be lower. But the demographic match, as Patler alludes to, is tough. They normally go with a similar age or age range. The Duke study below uses figures for 20 year olds.

https://stat.duke.edu/~dalene/chance/chanceweb/123.nflviol.pdf

http://sbronars.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/does-the-nfl-have-a-crime-problem/

From an outfit who politics probably don't align with yours, here is an overview of those two links and some other material: http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&gl=us&strip=1

Yeah, I'm aware of the studies. The point is there is an agenda to making it look like NFL athletes are more likely to be criminals. The usual suspects lined up.

[MadScientist]

Yeah, I'm aware of the studies. The point is there is an agenda to making it look like NFL athletes are more likely to be criminals. The usual suspects lined up.

Perception can be skewed even without an overriding agenda. Things that make news often do so in part due to it not being a frequent event, but by making the news people perceive it as a more common event. Added to that you have the phenomena of people liking to see celebrity types knocked off their pedestals.

[Patler]

buncha smartasses with the coin part. Try matching them with their peers who didn't make it into pro football. Duh.

But are they the same as their peers who didn't make pro football, financially or environmentally? Are arrest rates the same among residents of affluent neighborhoods and those of inner city neighborhoods?

Personally, I don't know if the arrests rates are higher or lower than whoever you compare to, and I don't care. All I would like to see is for pro athletes, entertainers, etc. to be treated the same as others, to the extent that is possible. For a while, they skated off easily most times. Now, I think the pendulum may have swung the other way, and players are getting fired on allegations, not convictions.

[mraynrand]

But are they the same as their peers who didn't make pro football, financially or environmentally?

who can tell? So don't even try to draw comparisons then. Why get hung up on differences in money then, if comparisons are null and void?

I actually agree with you on the treatment part - try as much as possible to treat everyone the same when it comes to prosecution and sentencing. But that isn't how it works in practice - probably for the same underlying reasons as why people would think $$ are a uniform and overarching demographic characteristic.