US Air Marshals flee Brazil following arrest saga

[Evanelpus]

I wonder if we would have 6 pages of comments had the woman not been related to a Brazilian judge!

[Jabiman]

I wonder if we would have 6 pages of comments had the woman not been related to a Brazilian judge!

Regardless of that, there would have been no comments if glorified security guards were not given free licence aboard aircraft. We now have the ludicrous situation that during their brief history, the number of Air Marshals arrested is greater than the number of arrests that the Air Marshals have made. And at what cost to the suffering tax payer?
Following quote from this website: Duncan Blasts "Useless" Air Marshal Service | Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr.: Serving Tennessee's 2nd District

We now have approximately 4,000 in the Federal Air Marshals Service, yet they have made an average of just 4.2 arrests a year since 2001. In other words, we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest.

[Machaca]

spending approximately $200 million per arrest

...or about $65 per flight.