The FTC's enforcementstatistics don't include actions taken by more than 2, 000 other law-enforcement agencies that have access to the Consumer Sentinel database, which purges complaints after five years.
As reported by the U.S. Bureau of Statistics in 2008, 73 federal law enforcement agencies then employed approximately 120, 000 armed full-time on-duty officers with arrest authority.
But even those statistics may or may not include incidents in which the crew requested that local law enforcement meet the plane and take control of a passenger, an FAA spokeswoman said.