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NFL players arrested since Super Bowl XLVII (29 so far)
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2013-06-27/nfl-players-arrested-since-super-bowl-aaron-hernandez-pacman-jones-Boggles the mind how these criminals ae treated by the NFL, bggles the mind. If I shoplifted I'd not ever find work.
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http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/embarrassing-celebrity-arrests-of-2012-22425.gallery#!wallState=0__%2Fmovies%2Fembarrassing-celebrity-arrests-of-2012-22425.gallery%3FphotoId%3D10000001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes
All of these are unemployable because only elite athletes get special treatment, don't you know. I think if you were one of the best in the country at whatever it is you do and you shoplifted, you'd find work. Unless you worked in crime prevention, anyways...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes
All of these are unemployable because only elite athletes get special treatment, don't you know. I think if you were one of the best in the country at whatever it is you do and you shoplifted, you'd find work. Unless you worked in crime prevention, anyways...
http://www.edgeofsports.com/2013-07-01-850/index.html
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Crime hysteria is as American as genetically modified apple pie. Whatever the rates of violent street crime in society, the existential threat of the black/brown youth predator can always be counted upon to repulse and titillate both the mass media and the popular consciousness. The other all-consuming National Pastime centered on gawking at the black body in a spectrum of violence is the National Football League. Put these two together – crime hysteria and the NFL - and we have what can only be described as a cultural nocturnal emission.
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All concerned should put down the smelling salts, stick the fainting couch back in the closet and deal with reality. First of all, there is no “NFL crime wave.” The 29 players, some who were not even on active rosters, constitute around 1% of all players vying for NFL roster spots. Also, in a study last December by Stephen Bronars, “NFL players are arrested about one-fourth as often as men age 22 to 34 in the general population…. The arrest rate for NFL players has averaged about 2.9% compared to 10.8% for men age 22 to 34 (based on FBI crime data by age for men in 2009).”
(snip)
The criminal justice system has changed, but the mentality of NFL jocks simply hasn’t caught up. If you hear stories about the NFL in the 1970s and 1980s, players were always just an autograph and a wink from having a police officer look the other way. Today we live in a surveillance society where there are speed cameras on every street, drug and gun-sniffing dogs at major train stations, and mandatory sentencing guidelines and a voracious for-profit prison industry. We are also living in the age of racial profiling where if you are a person of color and in a fancy car, you will draw more attention than Tim Tebow at the San Francisco Pride parade. Even without the fancy car, police harassment follows black and brown bodies in numbers unimaginable in those pre-9/11 days when we were all indignant about racial profiling for about an hour and a half.
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There have been similar hysteria problems in the past, concerning drugs and terrorism. Really nothing new here, except for the brand of hysteria currently in vogue (athletes+crime).
(snip)
Crime hysteria is as American as genetically modified apple pie. Whatever the rates of violent street crime in society, the existential threat of the black/brown youth predator can always be counted upon to repulse and titillate both the mass media and the popular consciousness. The other all-consuming National Pastime centered on gawking at the black body in a spectrum of violence is the National Football League. Put these two together – crime hysteria and the NFL - and we have what can only be described as a cultural nocturnal emission.
(snip)
All concerned should put down the smelling salts, stick the fainting couch back in the closet and deal with reality. First of all, there is no “NFL crime wave.” The 29 players, some who were not even on active rosters, constitute around 1% of all players vying for NFL roster spots. Also, in a study last December by Stephen Bronars, “NFL players are arrested about one-fourth as often as men age 22 to 34 in the general population…. The arrest rate for NFL players has averaged about 2.9% compared to 10.8% for men age 22 to 34 (based on FBI crime data by age for men in 2009).”
(snip)
The criminal justice system has changed, but the mentality of NFL jocks simply hasn’t caught up. If you hear stories about the NFL in the 1970s and 1980s, players were always just an autograph and a wink from having a police officer look the other way. Today we live in a surveillance society where there are speed cameras on every street, drug and gun-sniffing dogs at major train stations, and mandatory sentencing guidelines and a voracious for-profit prison industry. We are also living in the age of racial profiling where if you are a person of color and in a fancy car, you will draw more attention than Tim Tebow at the San Francisco Pride parade. Even without the fancy car, police harassment follows black and brown bodies in numbers unimaginable in those pre-9/11 days when we were all indignant about racial profiling for about an hour and a half.
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There have been similar hysteria problems in the past, concerning drugs and terrorism. Really nothing new here, except for the brand of hysteria currently in vogue (athletes+crime).
