The higher ups are all politicians and political appointees.
How much faith do you have in people like that?
I know how much I have after I spent roughly 2 decades being around them...
It's an opportunity for "the system" to either give regular people a reason to respect the law, or a reason to not GAS when a cop, who had nothin ta do with insanity like this case, gets whacked.
Hate ta pile a giant stacka responsibility on this jurisdiction, but this one is so far off the map.