<p>Maybe some enterprising reporter will get to wok on following that money …</p>
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<p>Speaking of charity, did u know the NFL (not the franchise teams) is a non-profit organization? It is exempt from federal income taxes, even though it can pay Goodell a $44 million salary. </p>
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<a href=“The Real Super Bowl Question: Should The NFL Be A Nonprofit?”>http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2014/01/30/the-real-super-bowl-question-should-the-nfl-be-a-nonprofit/</a>
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<p>Goodell has hired former FBI director Robert Mueller to conduct an investigation in the wake of the AP story that the NFL had the second video months ago (because paying the guy who’s investigating you ensures a TOTALLY impartial investigation).</p>
<p>Anyway, this isn’t the first time Goodell has tried this whitewash trick:</p>
<p><a href=“'Bountygate' attorney questions Goodell's judgment in Rice investigation”>http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2014/09/11/vilma-attorney-questions-goodells-judgement-in-ray-rice-investigation/15457073/</a></p>
<p>Oh, and now Janay Rice is responsible not only for her own beating, but also for the NFL’s failure to investigate properly:</p>
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<p><a href=“The Latest Excuse For Roger Goodell Is Offensive ■■■■■■■■■”>http://deadspin.com/the-latest-excuse-for-roger-goodell-is-offensive-horses-1633642509</a></p>
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<p>Vilma and others have been tweeting their disgust (and delight) all day. Apparently the NFL last hired an investigator to look into the Richie Incognito bullying. It took three months! </p>
<p>I was in Baltimore today and there are things going on for the 200th birthday of the Star Spangled Banner. I wonder how they are going to spin this game tonight. All about 9/11? All about Fort McHenry? All about the rivalry with Pittsburgh? They’d love to focus the attention somewhere else. </p>
<p>CBS evidently thought that Rihanna may not be the best opener for tonight’s Ravens game:</p>
<p><a href=“Opening segment featuring Rihanna, Don Cheadle pulled from Thursday Night Football broadcast | For The Win”>http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/rihanna-cbs-thursday-night-football</a></p>
<p>Easy to say “why didn’t she leave”, not always so easy to do, as Leslie Morgan Steiner eloquently explains in a Ted talk from this year: <a href=“Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don't leave | TED Talk”>http://www.ted.com/talks/leslie_morgan_steiner_why_domestic_violence_victims_don_t_leave</a></p>
<p>Wow, that TED talk is fantastic.</p>
<p>Here’s more, including a player who was actually convicted but who can play on because the case is under appeal:</p>
<p><a href=“Ray Rice Is an Outlier: Most Domestic Abuse Suspects Play On - The New York Times”>Ray Rice Is an Outlier: Most Domestic Abuse Suspects Play On - The New York Times;
<p>Some context. Ray Rice is not an isolated case of the NFL tolerating and celebrating violent felons. In fact, it’s their MO:</p>
<p><a href=“Ray Rice, Ray Lewis and the absurdity of the NFL”>http://nypost.com/2014/09/11/ray-rice-just-latest-in-parade-of-nfl-law-breakers/</a></p>
<p>I’m a little surprised that people seem to be surprised that there is a lot of violence in football. I thought this was a pretty well known and established fact…</p>
<p>Oh it is. It’s the video of Rice – showing the world what the NFL considers acceptable behavior – which has cause the uproar. For the public, there’s a difference between hearing the crime described, and seeing it with our own eyes. For the NFL , though, even if you buy the ridiculous story that Goodell hadn’t seen the video, he knew* exactly* what happened in that elevator when he gave Rice the initial two week suspension. He had the facts from both the police and from Rice himself. Unfortunately for “the shield,” the scales are now off our eyes.</p>
<p>it’s a fact of life that if you can do something very few other people can do, people look the other way on many things.</p>
<p>People still defend child molesting movie directors… </p>
<p>it’s how life works. Unfortunate, but true.</p>
<p>Still, the NFL is not upset that Ray Rice did this… they are upset that it got out.</p>
<p>The prosecutor says that the evidence in the Peterson case was presented to a single grand jury. He denies that there was a previous grand jury that declined to indict.</p>
<p>There is this type of violence in every field. Men are not typically fired over it. Should they be? </p>
<p>The question of who gets fired for domestic violence is no different from the question of who gets prosecuted or penalized in the justice system at large. Defendants who have money, prestige or high public standing tend to keep their jobs/careers more than an ordinary working class person would. People have biases. </p>
<p>In my profession, you have to report all convictions to the licensing board. Someone with a domestic violence conviction could lose their license to practice. So yes, in some professions, someone would certainly care.</p>
<p>The charges were dismissed, though. There is no conviction of anything and now people want his boss fired. It’s unusual.</p>
<p>There’s some conflicting reports about the typical outcome in NJ. Earlier this week some writers said that the Rice PTI agreement was not unusual. Today Sal Palantonio of ESPN reported that only 1% of domestic violence cases in NJ get resolved this way. Which is it?</p>
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The relevant figure would not be the percentage of domestic violence cases, but the percentage of first-time domestic violence cases. </p>
<p>I’m interested to know how well the diversionary programs work. If diverted offenders re-offend at rates substantially smaller than similar offenders who get jail time, then I’d be in favor of the program. </p>
<p>On another thread, I noted that Peterson’s case appears to have first been referred to Houston. The Grand Jury there apparently found it should have been heard in Montgomery County instead. That Grand Jury seems to be the only one that reviewed the facts. </p>