Even in this modern, hyper-monitored digital age, finding criminals isn’t easy. That’s why the police sometimes turn to social media for assistance.


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Sure, this is often more of a public display of incompetence than an actual crime-fighting technique, but hey, if it gets more criminals off the street, so be it.


On that note, you too can now help in a police search! Do you live in, or have you recently been to, the city of Kent in the U.K.? If so, you may have seen a man who was recently connected with a burglary. Let me just pull up this picture really quick…



Ah. Well, never mind then, I guess.


For some reason, the Kent police thought that this early Windows-level rendering thought would actually help them find the perp. Instead, they just got roasted.





Unfortunately, this isn’t a first for a British police office (hell, we’ve even clowned on them in the past).


These images, called E-Fits, were once thought to be the best new way for officers to compose an image of a potential criminal. What’s been learned in the years since, however, is that they’re absolutely awful at doing that — and, rather than produce anything useful, they typically just create cut-and-paste horrors beyond our comprehension.



Even though it doesn’t work, it’s more than likely that these police stations will keep pouring money and time into the program. At least we’ll get some more funny images out of it.