In another case of Britain’s Dumbest Criminal, a rigged cop car has caught one unfortunate British thief three times this year.
The 21 year old Briton who goes by the name of James Milsom and hails from Bristol, was caught breaking into an undercover cop car loaded with goodies and a hidden camera for the third time this year, Sky News reports.
Nicknamed Prat Nav by national media, James Milsom had only been back on the streets for six weeks following a similar smash and grab offense with another undercover cop car.
The thief was caught red handed by the in-car camera, which showed him breaking into the car and nabbing himself a GPS.
According to the Daily Mail, Milsom served time in prison in February and March for the same crime and has now been jailed for another 14 weeks.
The news comes just a few weeks after another contender for Britain’s Dumbest Criminal, Andrew Kellett, was slapped with an Anti-Social Behaviour Order for posting more than 80 videos of himself and others apparently committing crimes on YouTube. The ASBO prevents him from posting anymore videos or images of his activities online. Kellet maintains he was just an innocent bystander, recording events.
Fine, have soft sentencing... but then don't bother with a 'sting' operation to put people in jail for such a short time!
'How about trying to help the guy get a job?'
No, it's far better to spend money on a sting operation in order to put people in jail for a few hours... that's the way to spend government money.
Let's face it this 'sting' operation is a joke... it apparently stings the same people, doesn't really take people off the street for very long and is wasting police resources that could be used elsewhere. While the article was focused on the 'dumb' criminal... I find this whole activity by the police to be even more dumberererer.
How about trying to help the guy get a job? Provide him with an education in prison. Very few criminals cannot be rehabilitated if treated correctly. Sure there are some that seem beyond our reach, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to help them.