Well if you’re correct it sounds more like conspiracy than stupidity. Which is worse when it comes to criminal justice?
Cato Institute; Botched Paramilitary Police Raids: An Epidemic of “Isolated Incidents”
“Which is worse when it comes to criminal justice?”
This wasn’t about criminal justice -that occurs in the courts. This was about law enforcement. So, what laws are upheld or enforced by a squad of paramilitaries going to a man’s home and shooting him in front of his family? That wasn’t even allowed in Iraq!
I don't know of any reason it can't be both - stupidity for doing it, and conspiracy for trying to cover it up.
As far as which is worse, I'd say the consipracy. The stupidity gets the first person killed. The conspiracy gets all the rest that follow killed because they got to go right on being stupid.