Can someone explain why this post is stupid?
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Does the NFL have a crime problem?
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Where is the correlation between brain trauma and criminal behavior? This stance doesn't make any sense.
close to the edge
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I agree. You'd have to compare the crime rates to other people who earn as much as NFL players do.
Especially with hockey being the same situation.
jordan0386
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NAH. Still doesnt compare.
NBA Gets 1 or 2 a year. NFL avgs like 20 arrests a season. Too much money to be acting a fool.
purnoman3000
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What about compared to the crime rate of people (or men I guess) who make at least 6 figures? or whatever the league minimum is
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What country doesn't have crime?
And the fact crime rates, especially violent crimes. have been dropping steady for the last 30 years?
This post isn't meant to be flamebait for others to attack, but here we go:
It seems to me that most of the NFL players that are arrested are black/latinos. I wanted to check if my assumptions are true. So, I looked at all of the arrests made in the last year in the NFL (from july 2012 to July 2013), and I complied all of players and separated them by race. There were well over 60 arrests made in the last year. Some of the charges were dropped, other charges were upheld.
Total of 56 players arrested: (some twice)
48 black (85.7%)
3 white (5.4%)
5 latino (8.9%)
I found that stat to be alarming. So, I checked the percentage of white to black players in the NFL and most of the stats say that 70% of NFL players are black and the rest are white and latino. So, it makes statistical sense that more black players will be arrested on average. But it doesn't explain why only 3 white players were arrested, and freaking 48 black players were arrested!! That is a big difference.
I am not trying to say that black people are more violent/hostile or whatever. I am trying to figure out why they seem to get in trouble more often than other players.
Any sociologists want to chime in?
It seems to me that most of the NFL players that are arrested are black/latinos. I wanted to check if my assumptions are true. So, I looked at all of the arrests made in the last year in the NFL (from july 2012 to July 2013), and I complied all of players and separated them by race. There were well over 60 arrests made in the last year. Some of the charges were dropped, other charges were upheld.
Total of 56 players arrested: (some twice)
48 black (85.7%)
3 white (5.4%)
5 latino (8.9%)
I found that stat to be alarming. So, I checked the percentage of white to black players in the NFL and most of the stats say that 70% of NFL players are black and the rest are white and latino. So, it makes statistical sense that more black players will be arrested on average. But it doesn't explain why only 3 white players were arrested, and freaking 48 black players were arrested!! That is a big difference.
I am not trying to say that black people are more violent/hostile or whatever. I am trying to figure out why they seem to get in trouble more often than other players.
Any sociologists want to chime in?
Off-topic. Your stats have nothing to do with the OP's question.
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Yeah that's the funny thing about people who don't think this is an issue. If these guys were unemployed and barely scraping by in life, criminal behavior wouldn't be that surprising, but they're making hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per year. The crime rate for other people in their tax bracket is miniscule.
DUFFMCWALIN
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No it doesn't Crime has been going down in America pretty much every year since the late 80's or early 90's afaik. Let me go find the info.
Alligatorjandro
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Some guys just cant change their way of life when they get to the NFL it seems.
gutter_trash
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turning someone into a mega millionaire overnight can quickly grant them a God Complex without the gradual ramp up
theignoramus
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counting arrests doesnt tell the whole story, separate the felonies from misdemeanors.
Remember the early 80s and 90s? There were literal no mans lands in LA and NYC.
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Tabris.
I guess the AP just picked it up.
BakedPigeon
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Nah man, they don't have a crime ;problem at all, they commit them just fine.
iamshadowlark
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The numbers really do make the OPs question seem hyperbolic and sensationalist. Also you can easily tell whose never played a lick of organized football in their life.
Escape Goat
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Maybe crime has an NFL problem.
close to the edge
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Well, I'm not a sociologist, but I'm not sure if the difference from 70% black players in the NFL to 85% of the arrested players being black is really statistically significant. The sample size of arrested players is rather small. Also, if the number of arrests made on black players was in the same proportion as the number of players in the NFL (so, both being 70%) it would only mean that 8 less black players were arrested, so 40 instead of 48 black players arrested.
Also, if you maybe cross-reference that statistic with the % of crimes in general being committed by different ethnicities, you might find something there. (are black people more likely to be arrested in general?)
Sure taking a long time getting the info
The data I gave you is up to date. United States has a higher crime index than Russia in 2013.
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