If there’s anything that might slightly diminish your faith in humanity, it’s this incident report from an MPD press release sent out yesterday evening:

Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at approximately 2:39 pm, an adult female instructed her juvenile son to snatch a cell phone from an individual in the 3500 block of 14th Street, NW. A short time later, the suspect was arrested by officers and charged with Attempt to Commit Robbery and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor.

Depressing, huh?