Are NFL Players Usually More Criminal?

The BBC looked to USA Today's Brent Schrotenboer, who's created quite the database on NFL arrests, to see if the NFL has a crime problem. By the numbers:

• Since 2000, there have been 664 arrests (individual arrests, not arrested individuals). 
• The arrest rate for active players is one in 47. For the general public, it's one in 25. 
• The arrest rate for all men 21-34 is one in 8. 
• The arrest rate for all 23-year-old men (like Hernandez) is one in 6. 
• The arrest rate for US women is one in 46. 
• "[Drunk] driving makes up 30% of all active player arrests during a year," but is half the rate of the general public aged 21-34. 
• "[I]n general terms there are about six times as many arrests among the general population of young American men, as there are among football players." 

However, the BBC does add this caveat: "Other critics would argue that the one in 47 figure is still too high because unlike a lot of the general population the players had an education in college, earn very good money and live in safe neighbourhoods." Read more at BBC News Magazine.