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'Cascading Failures' in Uvalde |
Leadership failures, lack of coordination, and decisions contrary to generally accepted practice were responsible for the delayed police response during a May 2022 mass school shooting, according to a long-awaited federal report released yesterday. Nineteen students and two teachers were killed in the attack at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, with 17 others wounded.
The central issue was found to be a failure by law enforcement to treat the scene as an active shooter situation upon arrival. Specifically, first-on-the-scene responders, including the commanding officer reportedly shifted the response to that of a barricaded shooter (p. 16, full report here)—despite 911 dispatchers relaying they had received calls from children inside the classroom four minutes after officers arrived. Leadership also failed to establish a clear command structure, leaving many arriving support officers confused and without clear orders.
Officials received intense criticism in the aftermath of the attack, with more than 75 minutes passing after the initial police response and before action was taken against the shooter, during which multiple calls by students were made to 911. See a comprehensive timeline here. |
Reddit is reportedly set to launch its initial public offering in March after a three-year effort to go public, marking the first social media platform to do so since 2019. The filing is expected in February, with the IPO likely completed by the end of March.
The San Francisco-based company, valued at about $10B in a funding round in 2021, will decide its IPO valuation closer to the listing and is looking to sell about 10% of its overall shares. Founded in 2005, the company generates most of its revenue through advertising and monthly subscriptions but has yet to turn a profit. It reportedly brought in over $800M in advertising revenue in 2023.
The news comes after a decision last year to charge third-party apps to access the site's previously free application programming interface. Reddit faced protests on the platform for the move, including over 8,000 subreddits going dark.
Reddit is the world's 16th-largest website by traffic, boasting over 70 million daily users. See more Reddit stats here. |
Panama Canal officials announced Wednesday they would reduce the daily number of vessels allowed to transit the shipping passage to 24, down from the average of 36 this time last year, amid severe drought conditions. Estimated losses from the cutbacks are expected to cost Panama nearly $700M this year and have domino effects on global shipping.
The 50-mile canal across the isthmus of Panama is one of the world's busiest trade routes, seeing roughly 5% of global maritime volume and 40% of all US container traffic, a total of roughly $270B in cargo annually (watch overview). First opened in 1914 to facilitate faster trade between the east coast of the US and Asia, the canal requires roughly 50 million gallons of fresh water for each of the 15,000 annual ships using its lock system. Track real-time ships here.
The reduction further strains global trade as the world's other major canal, the Suez in Egypt, sees drops in traffic amid escalating conflict in the Middle East. |
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