According to the Denver Post, 1/18 p. 1A)
"David Card and Gordon Dahl, researchers who studied football and police reports from 1995 to 2006, looked specifically at the games' impacts on domestic violence.
"The main thing we found was Sundays with football games are typically pretty bad for domestic violence," said Card, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "Part of the reason is that people are home, drinking."
They considered Las Vegas odds, which predict which team will win and by how much. Upset losses, the most painful kind, led to an 8 percent increase in police reports of domestic violence against women in the home, the study found."
Read more: Denver police on alert for violence after Broncos-Patriots game - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24934240/denver-police-alert-violence-after-broncos-patriots-game#ixzz2qlt0AKKv
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San Francisco Sheriff and Prosecutor Arrested for Dometic Violence
Looks like some of the public officials in one of America's most left-wing politically correct cities thought they were above the law.
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