These cops really took a series of L’s.

If you don’t want someone to take your car, you have to lock the door — and you certainly have to put it into a position through which one would require a key or some other device to start.

You’d think that the police would know this information, but these officers certainly didn’t. While attending to a woman having a mental health episode, they left their car unattended — allowing the woman to get into it and start to drive it away.

Well, she was probably trying to drive it away, but what ended up happening was her smashing the car into a tree.

According to a follow-up investigation, the car was brand new and unable to be recovered after the accident. Glad to see our tax dollars hard at work!