The NFL is a game built around violence, but more and more violence in and around stadiums has become an ugly but common feature of football games. There were numerous instances of fan violence at 49ers games at Candlestick Park, and the issue has not gone away entirely at Levi’s Stadium.
Friday morning, the Washington Post recently released a thorough look at stadium arrests between 2011 and 2015. According to the study, arrest rates at stadiums have fluctuated, but they are trending “slightly upward on a per-game basis since 2011.” They provided a map detailing where the most and least arrests were happening.