Do I believe that the NFL should have a Personal Conduct Policy that applies off the playing field? Yes, I believe it should. Do I believe that the current policy is good? No. It's horrible. For all the reasons that Stradley mentioned.
I agree with you on personal conduct regulations generally.
My question was somewhat different. If the personal conduct policy were limited to convictions (actual adjudications of guilt), then it is easily executed and based on assessments by institutionally competent professional investigators operating under legal constraints often designed to protect victims of offenses.
Specific to unadjudicated allegations of domestic violence, as you have here, do you believe the NFL should be involved in these concerns? In the military, we issued protective orders in order to stabilize a domestic concern, and we had nearly unlimited authority to control military personnel in all aspects of life (the military offered programs, counseling and protection in a more global approach). Those orders had the force of law. I am unaware of any attempt by private enterprise to do what this policy purports to do (self-policing allegations).
My concern with the NFL and this issue, post-Ray Rice, is that this program is nothing more than window dressing in a PR scam designed to placate the masses through a "we don't endorse domestic abusers" approach designed to help avoid economic protests in response to inaction. The NFL added well known prosecutors to give it the appearance of legitimacy (which I find odd they are still working for the NFL post-Josh Brown incident).
I abhor domestic violence (having spent some time in criminal court, I will acknowledge there are some very strange stories and not every claim is necessarily valid). But I cannot fathom a way the NFL, other than acting off of criminal convictions, can do more good than harm in these unadjudicated cases. Even former prosecutors, if employed as other than window dressing, when stripped of agent and police investigative support, lack the resources to make this work.