In the accidental case where it may appear otherwise, I wasn't making excuses. I was stating facts.
Moving on to the judement phase, yes, they are both incompetent and / or negligent. All other matters aside, once the suspect was restrained and ready to be put into a patrol car, the crisis is over. All threats of harm are nullified, and at that point SOMEONE placed the suspect into a car that was *sitting on railroad tracks.*
So we have one parking city property on a railraod track and allegedly another putting a suspect in direct and obvious peril.
They're both unfit.