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Doberman23
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Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 958
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 06:05 pm: | 
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Figures don't lie, but they are open to interpretation
By Brent Schrotenboer
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
April 22, 2007
In 1998, authors Don Yaeger and Jeff Benedict documented crime among NFL players in their book “Pros and Cons.”
The book used public records and statistical analyses to determine that 21 percent of NFL players then had criminal records – a finding the NFL criticized on several grounds. The NFL said the study unfairly included criminal incidents in college and that their rate of arrests is no different than, say, a group of plumbers.
It all depends on the model of comparison:
According to the Union-Tribune's list of 308 arrests and citations since 2000, the NFL's arrest rate is about 43 per year, or one per 45 players. That's out of about 1,950 players per year including practice squads and does not include college charges.
For the general population, the arrest rate is twice as frequent – about one per 21 people, according to the FBI. The FBI's rate, like this NFL rate, does not count the number of individual people arrested, just incidents. The FBI rate also counts an arrest as “each separate instance in which a person is arrested, cited, or summoned for an offense.”
For drunken-driving arrests, the NFL's rate is about one per 144 players, according to the list. That's better than the overall general population's DUI arrest rate of one per 135 people, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Compared to all men under 30, the NFL compares even better. The NHTSA didn't have an exact rate but said the DUI rate for men under 30 was roughly double the general population's.
Statistically, analysts say the fairest measure of comparison is to contrast the numbers with the right peer group.
For NFL players, “their peers are people with high-wage opportunity and have some college eduction,” Yaeger said. “Why compare an NFL player who has the ability to earn $2.8 million next year with a crack dealer in Washington, D.C.? You compare them to people who earn a good living and put that at risk (with crime), and their arrest rate is outrageous.”
Arrest rate statistics by wage and level of education were not available because it is not typically recorded when arrests are made. |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1515
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 06:20 pm: |
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WOW!! FOR ONCE YOU POSTED A STORY THAT "APPEARS" LIKE IT WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN BY AN ADULT.
I'M PROUD OF YOU!!!
FOR THE FIRST TIME YOU ARE NOT "BORING" US WILL TALES OF YOUR FASCINATION OF SLEEPING WITH WHITE WOMEN!! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8430
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 06:25 pm: |
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Look whose talking about somebody boring people. You have to be the most unoriginal thinker on this board, Sissysailor, never saying anything new, spewing obscenities one minute and then attempting to sanitize your image the next, trying to flex your puny muscles by giving Troy an ultimatum. Pitiful. It amazes me that anybody takes you seriously, |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1518
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 06:35 pm: |
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You know Che-Na-Na It amazes me that anybody would take me serious as well!! Especially YOU!!!
HA HA HA!!!
I guess I have more power than I thought I had!!
And "for the record" I was not trying to give Troy and Ultimatum. I was just telling him what I thought of him. You would know that if you read my post. Something that a Troy a**kisser like you would never "dream" of doing in a "million" years. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8432
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 06:47 pm: |
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All you did when you wrote Troy that letter was was to make a big fool of yourself, Serenasailor, something that wasn't hard to do. LMAO. Yes you do have the power - to make me laugh at how ridiculous you are. Buh Bye |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1520
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 09:27 pm: |
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Go take your Meds Cyniques!! |
Doberman23
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Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 959
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 10:33 pm: |
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i'm still shocked sausageswallower knows how to read |
Doberman23
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Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 961
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 10:38 pm: |
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by the way dub-s this is dealing with sports so go back to worrying about models and other feminine based articles. |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1523
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 11:19 pm: |
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Giving yo own little Bytch a** stars again HUH???
I thought I told you nobody will agree with your "line of thing" except a fifth grader. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9333
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 07:19 am: |
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Perhaps NFL players are no more likely to be arrested and convicted of crimes than those who do not play pro football. But does that mean being an NFL player make one less likely to commit crime? Or does it mean NFL players are less likely to be pursued, arrested, charged and convicted of the crimes they do? |
Doberman23
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Post Number: 967
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 01:30 pm: |
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i think that being a nfl player means they are more likely not to get arrested or face the same penalties as the average person, but unlike the average person the football players slightest misdemeanors become headlines and top of the news stories.
not to mention when their family members do something illegal that also ends up on the news to. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4246
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 11:17 am: |
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Hey, all they are doing is following the example of George W. Bush. |
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