I think one hard thing for the league is that it is a command and control organization. Letting all sides involved in domestic abuse become involved in independent treatment programs means that the issue is no longer under the league’s control, and they fear where that could go. If the abuser is on a team with toxic…

You’re right that knee jerk policies won’t help, and one place to start will be the NFL figuring out how to break up the 1890s Pinkerton culture of its investigators. Not likely to happen, but it’s key that the league and teams get away from the sense that they deal with problems with a private security force out to…