Yeah. I agree they could have done more to capture the factors here better.
I wonder about the "dummy" body cam, though. I feel like that's an obvious group to include for the sake of teasing out contributing factors, but I also wonder if that would have gotten them sued. "You were supposed to be filming but somehow the footage is missing and now you claim it wasn't even a real camera?!"
They don't get sued (successfully) for having body cams and actually destroying evidence when it suits them, so they should be pretty safe with not collecting it at all.
I wonder about the "dummy" body cam, though. I feel like that's an obvious group to include for the sake of teasing out contributing factors, but I also wonder if that would have gotten them sued. "You were supposed to be filming but somehow the footage is missing and now you claim it wasn't even a real camera?!"