A photo from open sources
Chinese Law Enforcers from Zhensong County in Yunnan were forced to apologize the other day to the public after how they were subjected to numerous ridicule in the World Wide Web.
The reason for this was a child’s photo of one of the criminals. Lacking later snapshots of this person, law enforcers decided not to make his image-mask, but used to search offender the only available picture, and, you must agree, not the most successful.
Looking at this thick-skinned boy, you can hardly to believe that he grew up a dangerous criminal consisting in criminal gang. 17-year-old Ji Qinghai is already enough hiding from the police for a long time, however law enforcement officers failed to get his photo, therefore they just used the preschool picture of the gangster, immediately calling perplexity and criticism from many citizens of the Celestial Empire and in whole web users.
As you might guess, such a wanted ad is striking stands out among others to which photographs of adults are attached delinquents, or at least photo-robots. Even though Ji Qinghai is still a minor, he committed already several serious crimes. Due to the fact that soon the young gangster will turn 18 years old, they will obviously be judged as an adult. Unless, of course, the police manage to arrest the guy.
Many patrons of virtual space called such an act of law enforcement officers is ridiculous and stupid, because considered that the child in the photo has no attitude to crimes, although he commits them, roughly speaking, in the future.
To date, the Zhengsong Police Department is already published a statement in which law enforcement officers apologized and tried to explain their actions. According to them, due to that they didn’t have a fresh picture of the criminal; they considered that his facial features can be somehow recognized on the basis of a child’s a photo. In addition, someone could well know the guy as a child and see him grow up. It never occurred to them that this would cause so violent backlash from web users the Internet…
