The phrase "a failure to identify" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where there is a lack of recognition or acknowledgment of something important, often in formal or analytical writing.
Example: "The report highlighted a failure to identify key risks that could impact the project's success."
Alternatives: "an inability to recognize" or "a lack of identification".
A failure to identify all possible perpetrators would equate to a failure to identify all who may have been victims of voicemail interception.
Shortcomings included poor record-keeping and a failure to identify children at immediate risk of harm.
There have been glaring faults under his tenure – last year's IT catastrophe and a failure to identify Libor-rigging earlier, for example.
A failure to identify behaviours symptomatic with alcoholism delays treatment and increases the danger alcoholics pose to themselves and to others.
In 2005, for example, the Illinois inspector general found that a failure to identify parents' mental health and substance abuse problems was a common feature in child deaths.
In a 16-page report, they condemned everything from poor record-keeping to a failure to identify children at immediate risk of harm.
Dreamworld staff admitted there had been a "total failure" to identify risks with the ride and a series of equipment failures before the accident should have raised red flags.
Although giant multinationals and scrappy startups alike are beginning to reckon with the problem, you don't have to look far to find odious manifestos arguing that these figures simply reflect women and girls' lower aptitude in STEM fields, rather than an industry failure to identify and cultivate the best talent, regardless of how many X chromosomes one carries.
The request in this case was a commonsense inquiry, not an effort to obtain an arrest for failure to identify after a Terry stop yielded insufficient evidence.
Under those principles, an officer may not arrest a suspect for failure to identify himself if the identification request is not reasonably related to the circumstances justifying the stop.
Further, there is no obvious reason why an agent's failure to identify with a motive should be diagnosed in terms of the agent's failure to participate.
