At issue is the following statement Less than 1 of domestic

At issue is the following statement: Less than 1% of domestic violence assault cases in New Jersey end with pre-trial intervention. In the past four years in New Jersey, there have been 15,029 domestic violence cases involving assault. Of those domestic violence cases involving assault, only 70, or 0.47%, have ended with the pre-trial intervention that prosecutors gave Rice. Let A represent the event that a court case is a domestic violence assault case. Let T represent the event that a defendant was granted a pre-trial intervention. Let N represent the event that a defendant is an NFL player. How would you symbolically represent the probability reported in the statement above (e.g., the 0.47%)? What statistical assumption are the victim’s rights groups making about the events T and N?

Solution

The statistics do not indicate whether the cases cited involved first-time offenders, and are not separated county-by-county. The data also do not break down PTI granted for varying degrees of assault, such as aggravated assault in the third degree, a more serious charge than the assault that Rice faced.

In New Jersey, there are two types of assault: simple assault and aggravated assault. Aggravated assault, which Rice was charged with, involves an attempt to cause or the actual infliction of an unjustified injury. Levels of injury range from a \"bodily injury\" to a more severe \"significant bodily injury\" up to a \"serious bodily injury.\" A grand jury charged Rice with aggravated assault in the third degree causing bodily injury, a felony.

Meanwhile, Goodell has come under fire for saying that neither he nor anyone in his office saw the video of Rice slugging his fiancee until Monday morning. But via the Associated Press, a law enforcement official said a copy of the video was sent to league headquarters in April, more than three months before Goodell levied a two-game suspension against Rice.

The NFL has launched an independent investigation into Goodell\'s handling of the Rice case. It will be headed by former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who now works for the same law firm that helped the league negotiate it\'s new multibillion-dollar deal with DirecTV. The investigation will also be overseen by two of Goodell\'s closest supporters: Giants co-owner John Mara and Steelers president Art Rooney