I heard a pundit make the same point, but there is another factor to bring up, and that is privilege. I am not sure that there is hard data to back this up, but it seems fairly uncontroversial to say that people of privilege get away with offenses that others might not. I think there are likely offenses committed by football players that the authorities look the other way on.
That being said, I can't see it bumping up arrest numbers by a factor of 2.