It’s not a question of apathy. The NFL needs to get rid of people like this, and make sure that the culture that produces them understands why.
Of course you’re correct, but the point of the column is that law enforcement and courts should be taking care of these thugs and their infantile behavioral habits that in an adult are dangerous.
The NFL is a business that rewards talent and should have to do no more than pick up a phone and report knowledge of a crime like every other business who has knowledge of a crime by one of their charges, employees or contract staff.
Firing is made simple and deactivating an NFL player should be simple. But, the theatrics the NFL is being forced into by the pressure social politics looks juvenile and cartoonish.