I think that's probably true. I don't think doubling down on stupid makes one a war criminal.
Then what does?
We have an entire governmental structure that's almost completely protected by qualified and similar immunities. Nobody's ever held accountable, except occasionally a few low-level scapegoats. And you're saying when something truly horrible happens, it's not their fault.
People with the authority to kill other people need to be held to a higher standard, not to a standard so low it makes a dent in the floor.
There are a couple of things that can and should be done to fix this.
1. Term limits for every elected office. Every office. I'd prefer officeholder by random lottery, but that's a bridge too far.
1a. No revolving door of government, lobbying, and associated industry.
1b. No PACs, no donations by any organization. Individual donations only and only up to $1,000.
2. Mandatory shuffling of job assignments for career civil servants (i.e. you don't get to be the Chief Drone Bean Counter for Division A of Department 57 of Branch Zulu of the Federal Carbonpaper Quality Assurance Agency for the next 30 years, you have to move amongst federal agencies every couple of years since a financial analyst (in this example) should be competent to be one in any federal agency).
3. No qualified immunity. None. Not for law enforcement, not for politicians, not for judges.
4. Require law enforcement to have the same degree of training and licensure as lawyers, doctors, and engineers.
5. Tactical units for law enforcement *must* have actual combat experience or have been in a combat arms branch (infantry, MP, pararescue, etc.) No more fat cops involved in cosplay who are afraid of getting shot.
6. Prosecutors shall not be elected and using it as a stepping stone to a judgeship or higher elected office.
6a. They need to prosecute according to the law, not what they think they can convict on, not should they be allowed to plea bargain solely to obtain a "win.'
7. We're need to forcefully reject any and all attempts to move society to the left. Wanna smoke dope while having buttsex with three partners who dress up as they opposite sex? Do it on your own time, but you won't be allowed to promote it publicly in any way, shape, or form where you have undue influence over children or the public at large. This would secondarily eliminate the grifting involving Marxist organizations owned and operated by the family members of politicians being hired to do this by those same politicians.
There are some good ideas in there, but a lot of ideas I'm skeptical about. Term limits, for example. I'm all for them in theory, but they don't seem to make much practical difference.
I do think the qualified/etc. immunies need to be killed dead. This includes criminal immunities, but also civil. Citizens need to be able to sue their government for redress, when the government harms them. This is a fundamental right, which should never be abridged.
I do think a lifetime ban on working in the industry you regulated is a good idea.
But I think a ban on PACs and very low limits on individual contributions is a terrible idea. Most politicians already have to spend ridiculous amounts of time raising money, and the parties are the gatekeepers, meaning we end up with elected officials who are first and foremost professional fund raisers not whatever skill or talents we want in that position, and who are completely beholden to their party because the party controls whether they can get re-elected. In practice, the few true outsider politicians who ever manage to get elected tend to be rich, because self-funding your campaign is one of the few ways to get around these restrictions. The other is to be an internet celebrity, like AOC or Marjorie Taylor Greene, who both successfully raise lots of money from tons of tiny donors. But that's a tiny percentage, and most of their donors aren't in their districts, anyway, so it raises questions about whether they really represent the people they're supposed to represent.
I'm not sure shuffling people around the bureaucracy would make much difference. I think say a 10 year cap on government employment -- of any kind, over your entire life -- might help. If you can't make government your career, that destroys a lot of the worst incentives, as well as preventing things like the last 2-1/2 years of people, who never even had a job in the private sector, telling us how they're going to fix the economy and help businesses.
Getting rid of SWAT is probably a better idea than further militarizing them.
Not sure how to fix prosecutors, but plea bargaining needs to be completely re-thought. It's basically just become a way to punish people without any real due process. And forcing them to prosecute for all violations of the law isn't practical, because everyone breaks dozens of laws every day. The basic problem is there are too many laws and too many regulations that function as laws. The solution to this morass was to give prosecutorial discretion to the prosecutors, but that basically just means they can punish anyone they want at any time for any reason, which gives them tremendous leverage in things like plea bargains. This is very similar to the much broader problem of regulatory discretion, which gives regulators vast and unaccountable soft power over industries (social media's compliance with censorship and spying on citizens are just two examples). This allows the government to effectively control the private sector (this idea from the left that we've been living in a laissez faire paradise is absolutely ridiculous), and to demand favors, which is the root of corruption and cronyism. This whole area is a Gordian knot that probably just needs to be cut out entirely and replaced with a new system.