Flutterby™! : Clueless officers?

The Daily Breeze, out of Torrance, CA has a local story about a naked man who trips a burglar alarm while sneaking into a school at night with a camera and tripod. The story says he was found with the camera, which the officers said he "was using to take naked pictures of himself", and that other photos in the camera indicated he had done this at other locations.

Now, maybe I'm biased (not to mention "corrupted") because I have a membership at a website where hobbyists routinely take naked pictures of themselves at various public and semi-public locations, but I find the closing remarks in the story to be the height of cluelessness:

"His actions are highly unusual," Crespin said. "Usually when you catch someone committing a burglary, they're there to take items."

Crespin said it was not known why the man was taking the pictures.

Are they really so naive as to think he must have been there to steal stuff? Or are they just trying to give him a break and charge him with something that won't get him branded as a sex offender for the rest of his life?