Everyone’s seen police sketches – at the post office, on the local news, or in the newspaper. But how many criminals actually get caught because of the sketches? It’s no small feat for a police artist to draw a realistic portrait of an alleged criminal based only on the oral description of a witness. How accurate are the drawings? You decide: here’s a gallery of police sketches, set alongside actual mugshots and photos of the people they depict. Police always creates composite sketches to catch criminals. But do these drawings really look like the people they depict? Compare police sketches and real mugshots after the jump. Enjoy.